Stainless Steel

Every year, artisan bicycle builders from all over the world descend upon a different US city to show their wares at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. We decided to begin our coverage of this year's event with an eye-catching one-of-a-kind bike that was built especially for the show.

With objects you need to take camping or that you need to keep on you at all times, portability is key. Reducing camping cutlery down to an absolute minimum is the approach Micah Baclig has taken with his new spork. The Kuma fits into the palm of a hand.

A new high-temperature superconductor can trap a record magnetic field of 17.6 Tesla – an advance that could bring us closer to cheaper maglev and vacuum trains, better electric grids, and flywheel energy storage.

Inspired by the internal structure of bones and bamboo, which both boast impressive strength-to-weight ratios, US researchers have created increased the toughness of various metals by altering the microstructures within them.

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are working on simulations to improve the speed of 3D laser metal printing as well as the quality of the final product by using higher-powered lasers.

Victorinox Swiss Army has launched a new watch collection at this year's Baselworld in Switzerland. The rugged companion for life Inox watch has undergone over a hundred toughness tests, including being run over by a tank, dropped onto concrete, and thrown into the middle of a sandstorm.

The Baselworld 2014 watch show officially starts tomorrow in Basel, Switzerland, but Gizmag has already spotted a pretty special-looking watch on the trade show floor. The Bifrost Isblå features a dial made from what the company describes as "high-contrast" pattern-welded stainless Damascus steel.

When we covered the Cardsharp2 back in 2012, it was a stainless steel blade integrated in a polypropylene body. Now, the design has received a full metal jacket. The Cardsharp4 uses an all-aluminum case.

The Vault Wallet is a solid credit card sleeve made from stainless steel. The use of this material gives the Vault Wallet several advantages over the competition. It's strong, thin, able to block RFID sniffing, and potentially long-lasting.

Tuls is a "collection of compact, well-designed, card-sized tools" that are flat and small enough to be carried either on a keychain or in a wallet or handbag. Each of the four has a specific set of multi-purpose tools to offer.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries' MSR05 robotic arm is encased entirely in stainless steel, for easy sterilization using hydrogen peroxide gas.

Ringtool comes with all the options of a larger multitool, but at a fraction of the size.