Introducing: Blister Labs

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4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today we are excited to introduce you to a very big new initiative at Blister: Blister Labs. Blister Labs is a new partnership between Blister, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the brand-new, state-of-the-art engineering facility at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado. Joining me to talk about why we believe that Blister Labs represents a significant new development in the outdoor industry is Dr. Jeni Blacklock, who is the director of the Rady Partnership Program between CU Boulder and Western Colorado University.

TOPICS & TIMES:

What is Blister Labs? (2:17)
The Rady Engineering Facility at Western (6:21)
CU Boulder’s involvement (8:04)
New standards? (11:29)
Key faculty: Greg Vanderbeek & Sean Humbert (14:16)
Jeni’s current position & background (22:38)
Working at a bike shop and the NIST (31:37)
Some of Jeni’s recent work (41:05)
Blister Labs & the new “Outdoor Industry Engineering” program (43:23)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to a very special episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:11.5	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and
0:16.8	reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:21.3	Okay, today I am very happy to introduce you to a very big new initiative at Blister
0:28.0	called Blister Labs.
0:31.0	Now, very savvy listeners of Gear 30 will have heard me hint at this on various Gear 30 episodes over the past year, but now we get
0:40.7	to finally make the official announcement and talk about why we think that Blister Labs represents
0:47.4	a major new development in the outdoor industry.
0:52.5	Now, in short, Blister Labs is a new partnership between us here at
0:57.5	Blister, the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Engineering, and the brand new
1:03.9	state-of-the-art engineering facility at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado.
1:11.4	Joining me today to talk about Blister Labs is Dr. Jenny Blacklock, who, in addition to being
1:18.2	one of my favorite people in the Gunnison Valley and an absolutely incredible colleague,
1:24.4	well, Dr. Blacklock is the director of the Rady Partnership Program between
1:29.0	CU Boulder and Western Colorado University. And in addition to this podcast conversation
1:36.3	about Blister Labs, we're going to include a link in the show notes of this episode, where
1:41.3	you will be able to go check out our write-up about Blister Labs and check
1:46.0	out a two-minute video which shows off the incredible engineering facility at Western
1:52.0	Colorado University where much of our lab testing is going to be taking place.
1:58.6	But for now, I hope you enjoy this conversation where Jenny and I are going to tell you
2:04.1	what we've been working on and what we have in store for you with this new venture, Blister Labs.
2:11.4	So, here we go.
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