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Richard Palmer's D30
<b>Richard Palmer</b><br> Take an engineer and creative designer who’s also an innovator, add a passion for snowboarding, and the result? Richard Palmer, inventor of d3o, who’s come up with a novel way of giving extreme sports enthusiasts protection while retaining flexibility and freedom of movement.
Skewed View: What makes d3o different from traditional protective sportswear?

Richard Palmer: It’s the difference between Robocop and Spiderman. Robocop is built with protection around him like a shield; d3o is more like Spiderman, where the protection and the athlete are integrated together. People can get on with their sport without being confounded by pieces of bulky, rigid plastic and cumbersome, stiff foams.
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