Binding of the Year
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, a product comes along and forever alters the way things are done. Like in 1926, when Austrian mountaineer Rudolf Lettner invented skis with steel edges so he could have better grip. And in 1947, when Howard Head, an aircraft engineer who was unsatisfied with the heavy, inflexible wood skis of the day, spent $250 on a band saw and built the first metal skis, bonding a plywood core between sheets of aluminum and sidewalls.
