Archive for the 'News' Category

Producing X-Socks - The Movie

Friday, January 13th, 2006

French “Trek Magazine”, who have tested our products before, made a visit to the factory in Italy. Fabrice, responsible for X-Technology products at SIDAS, explains how X-Socks and X-Bionic UnderGear are developed, produced and quality checked. But the best part of it - they filmed the visit and put it on their DVD.

I’d love to tell you more, now. But first, I have to get a translation. If you are from France, be sure to get a copy of the magazine. It’s the December issue of “Trek Magazine”.

Trek DVD 1 Trek DVD 2

Thermographic scans

Monday, January 9th, 2006

In November, German discounter ALDI Süd offered functional underwear for 14,99 €. So far, so good. Had they not used our thermographic scans of the X-Bionic UnderGear. Their packaging features an identical copy of our image.

We charged their supplier a fee to use the image for one day. However, that does not change the fact that our image does not really match their underwear (left image is our scan, right is an actual scan of the crane underwear that ALDI sold):

Thermographic scan X-Bionic UnderGear Thermographic scan crane

Running 100 miles at -40°C

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Friso from our dutch distributor Marsch Sportswear writes:

here we have Ultrarunner Henk Sipers, who will participate in the Yukon Arctic Run, over 100 miles in temperatures of minus 40 degrees.

He has been training in a giant freezer to test his equipment. Of course he is wearing X-Socks to keep his feet warm and dry. His training session was seen on Dutch tv

Well, I say thanks to Friso and Good Luck to Henk. The YUKON ARCTIC ULTRA will take place Feb 11th - 19th in Whitehorse, Canada

Henk Sipers on TV