the WWE is gonna love this stuff

Popular Science had an article on this stuff several months ago - but this is way cooler.

And good call on that, BillO

That beanie invites beatings.

I was SO waiting for the interviewer to miss and smash the inventor in the face.

Dont try this at home.

seems awfully similar to a non-Newtonian fluid... just never quite gets soft enough to be a fluid again.

Now anytime I see someone with a beanie, I'm going to want to whack them in the head!

But if it's truly flexible enough, image what a godsend this would be for motorcyclists? You could make an entire outfit flexible enough to wear but strong enough for a crash.

rembar, me too.
"So I can just whack you on the head with this shovel?"
"Yeah"
*smashes nose*
=Comedy gold.

This is *british, right?

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Goddamnit, if we'd only had this in 2001 we coulda saved the World Trade Center!

This reminds me of that betagel stuff made by geltec where they drop an egg from like 20 meters onto a pad thats under an inch thick. Pretty cool technologies these days.

let me hit him in the head with a shovel, I'll drive his puffy coated cranium into his rib cage

Sky News – whacking people over the head with a shovel, and calling it news…

Still funny, though…

amazing. I wonder what the weight is of it.

now i will rule the demolition derby! mrahaha. wonder how the material preforms against bullets.

Goddamnit, if we'd only had this in 2001 we coulda saved the World Trade Center!

That's pretty fucked up, stukafox.

MarineGunrock, it's been 6 years, some non-directional gallows humor is allowed.

Back to the stuff, I wonder how ballistic-proof it is, or can be made to be? Be decent to save some lives and limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan even though no, we can't save the Towers now.

So what? It's been over sixty years since WWII. Are you saying it's OK to laugh at the Jews that were killed in the Holocaust?

"Hahaha! Genocide is funny!"

give it six more years and more kids like these gunrock, and their kids will come home from school, with jokes about the firemen's kids' daddies....

isn't this the realization of "nerf world"?? make cars, bumpers, everything out of this stuff.

deathcow.... i love you... and this foamy orange stuff!

theoneinsider: i don't think it would protect you from a bullet, since bullets pierce the material, a shovel doesn't...

But its energy redistribution is very interesting. A composite product, using Teflon materials (or something else) to prevent the penetration of the bullet, and dissipation of energy from the gel, would be great. (bullet proof vests stop puncture damage but still hurt like hell).

I saw a documentary looking at the evolution of the bullet proof vest over the years, and one of the current challenges was reducing weight/increasing usability, and combining other forms of protection, eg, a Stab Vest. Some bullet proof vests are not good against knives

*engineering

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