PopFoam Blog

Some 5,000 years ago, the first designers to make ice skates used bones to fashion the blades. The design worked — to a point. But in 1914, blade maker John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minnesota, manufactured a closed-toe blade from a  single piece of steel. The skates..

For any product, the right material can make or break customer satisfaction, regardless of how interesting or innovative the product design process looks on paper.

These days, product design and development is as much about the feel of a product as is the look and functionality. For designers who haven’t traditionally had to focus on texture as a key component, this creates an interesting challenge. To craft the kinds of..

A new muscle ball roller massager from Pro-Tec Athletics, named the Orb Extreme, was recently reviewed in the March edition of  Competitor Magazine as one of the best new products to help runners with deep massaging relief of quads, hamstrings and lower back.

Is EVA foam safe? PopFoam is introducing a new method of developing  and processing our compound that offers certification that it is a non-toxic foam that meets the most stringent children's, US and European regulations for EVA foam uses. We call the process..

Pop Foam had the opportunity to work with TZ Medical and help design and engineer an arm positioning device used for radial surgical procedures. These procedures center around access to the Radial Nerve and Radial Artery area of the wrist and hand. The result has..

One World Play project is introducing 4 different colors and two sizes of it ultra durable futbol for school and youth groups. This ball never goes flat and is perfect for the asphalt playground or street play. The One World Futbol that has now been given to almost..

Imagine an iPad tablet being used by children as young as 2 or 3 years old. In these tablet protective cases, the tablets can take quite a beating as they are dragged or dropped during their daily adventure.

PopFoam is a tough molded foam. To demonstrate the virtually indestructible toughness of PopFoam we made a 30 second video. We feature one tough small dog that tries to prove who is tougher. Here is the link...