Cold hands, warm stick: High school lacrosse player makes heated stick to beat icy conditions

[mahatmakanejeeves]

There doesn't seem to be a "Those crazy kids; what will they think of next?" forum, so I'll put this here.

Cold hands, warm stick: High school lacrosse player makes heated stick to beat icy conditions

Posted Jan 9, 2018 by Devin Coldewey



Lacrosse is a physically demanding sport under the best conditions, but inclement weather adds frozen hands to the mix. Samantha Wolfe had enough of it and, as a 14-year-old freshman, thought, “why not make a heated stick?” Three years later, her idea has become a reality — the FingerFire lacrosse stick — and is being tested right now by teams in colder climes.

Wolfe goes to school in New York, and explained the rather self-evident problem when I visited her booth at CES. ... “It gets so cold that even with gloves, your fingers get numb,” she said. She told her dad (who was also at the booth) at the time, why don’t they make sticks that warm your hands? It would sure make the games a lot more bearable.

Seems logical. But searching found no such thing, and eventually the Wolfes decided to take matters into their own hands, so to speak. They worked with a product design house Enventys Partners to do the engineering and prototyping, and it ended up being a two-year process to make the thing.
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Now the stick is set for testing this season by Division I teams at the University of Maryland, Syracuse and Johns Hopkins. (Don’t worry, there’s no rule against it — the US Lacrosse governing body approves.)

[PoliticAverse]

1. "It gets so cold that even with gloves, your fingers get numb," - heated gloves do exist. n/t