Item 9 : Polar Fleece Jacket Quiz.

Well we are coming to the end of our quiz. I really hope someone wins this jacket!
Here is item 9;

There are so many "inventors" who have found better ways to tie down boots first with straps, then with bindings, to make ski boots more comfortable, to make skis more effective and to make us see better in a snow storm ( see story of Scott ).

There was a young European student who skied a great deal and wanted to profit from his skiing experience. He decided to make his Ph.d thesis on how to make ski bindings better. He got his degree based on a different ski binding design and also produced a binding that soon was copied by others since he had a "brilliant" design ( that most bindings all use now ).

Name this new binding designed by this student.

For 2 extra points give the special design which made this unit so "adaptive" to skiers who wanted to get the most from their skis.
( If you look at 90% of modern bindings today,they all have this feature in their system).