I've had their concept knee pads for a while now. This really is the best thing since sliced bread, after the transistor of course.

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that is just awesome

Where to buy? How much for full body armor? Also - WOW WOW WOW!

this has to be added to lies. Look at all the footage, it is a scam. The table moves about 1/2 inch that absorbs the energy. Also they are using an aluminum shovel and a rubber mallet. It's all for visual effects not reality. And when they hit the pyramid blod with a real hammer it definately deforms.

I'm no physics surgeon, but the force has to be transferred somewhere, so while this might protect the surface from blunt damage, the force will still be transferred through an object, no? I'd have to think the elbow demo still would've hurt.

There are many Viscoelastic materials that absorb energy very similarly to this.

The point of any protective gear is to spread the impact over a large surface area. That's how bulletproof vests work: the momentum of the bullet is transferred to the entire torso; it will still feel like an impact, but not a deadly one. This d3o stuff does that but also gets around the clunky awkwardness of most protective gear by being totally flexible. It will be exciting to see where this leads!

pack a car with it?

It's f*n Silly Putty.

Come on guys.

Upvote for shredding guitar @ the end. Shredding guitar + science = greatness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D3O

Why not just use something that's ALREADY SOLID???

garmachi I'm going to assume thats rhetorical and just not go into the reasons against that statement.

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Very cool stuff - and yay, I * amazoned something relevant. I would like that hat.

>> ^garmachi:
Why not just use something that's ALREADY SOLID???


Google + "16th century armor"

Good day sir.

Yawn. http://www.videosift.com/video/Super-Foam-Inventor-Takes-Shovel-Blows-to-the-Head

A revolution in sport cup technology is upon us.

Yeah the music at the end sounded like the Power Rangers were about to trampoline-jump into camera view.

Strangely, a "foreign" woman was used for hitting the Japanese man with a shovel.

>> ^RadHazG:
garmachi I'm going to assume thats rhetorical and just not go into the reasons against that statement.


You would assume correctly.

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

Non-Newtonian Putty?

It looks like it's just so viscous that at high velocities it approximately behaves as if it were solid. There's no evidence of an actual phase change going on.

Just like what IzzyBizzy linked. This has been around for a while now.

Hrmm - for the first minute of the video I thought this was simply a demonstration of how a ninja spends time without his mask on. (Getting hit with shovels for fun on the weekends)

>> ^doogle:
It's f n Silly Putty.
Come on guys.


Except that Silly Putty, when struck with enough force, such as dropping a one pound brick from a 2nd story window, explodes into a bajillion little Silly Putty flechettes. Or so I've heard. I've also heard that it's impossible to truely clean up after an event such as that given the number and size of the Putty-ettes.

Make breast implants out of this material. Although it could make motor boating somewhat painful if not performed properly.

Finally. I've been waiting all my life for something to protect my watermelons from stray hammers.

It's cool for certain impacts and such... but they actually used it in a BOOT. Do you realize how STUPID that is? This material (3do) does not protect AT ALL against CRUSHING. If you drop a 50+ pound block on your foot, it's going to get crushed unless two things occur:

1) The block is traveling at a high speed, and
2) IMMEDIATELY after impact, the block is picked up or deflected.

I have steel toe boots, and I actually use the steel toes as a tool. I set heavy objects on them, so they are not flush with the floor. This allows you to get your fingers under the object to lift once you are in position. 3do would squish like jelly in this scenario, and most scenarios I can think of involving foot protection.