D30 SUPER protection - Come off at 60 mph and be unhurt

[G]

Seems interesting and if genuine could potentially mean helmets and armour protection improve massively

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91221-1286736,00.html

[sarah]

Seems interesting and if genuine could potentially mean helmets and armour protection improve massively

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91221-1286736,00.html

Looks interesting, I was just reading that article.

[Keith1983]

This stuff is already being used in goalkeeper gloves in the knuckles so that it is soft and maleable when trying to catch a ball and hard when trying to punch it. It's a great idea.

[Ceri JC]

Existing hiprotec armour has allowed me to come off at 60 and remain unhurt. This should be even better. :D

[Pedro68]

Sounds cool - so we'll all be riding round in "armour plated beanies" from now on then?! ;-) Mwaahaaahaaa

[northwind]

I've got to get me some of that :) Though I want to use it to make a squeezy foam hammer that, if you hit someone with it hard enough, turns solid and kills them. Slapstick murder, there's not a court in the land would commit.

You have to admire the inventor, most would come up with a sophisticated demo using measured amounts of force, statistics on impact absorption and force needed to cause injuries... "Hit me with a spade", that's proper genius.

[Pedro68]

northy would have been even funnier had the spade-wielder struck him with a "side on" whack that broke his neck ... "but officer, he just said to hit him with the spade" :-s

EDIT: ok maybe not, as the world would then have been -1 genius :(

[sinbad]

I remember reading about this stuff aaaages ago. It's annoying how long it can take a product to get to market, especially when it looks so perfect.

[stevehaskew]

Well... is it perfect? Do we know how this new stuff would react to heat or friction? If you're sliding and the new stuff suddenly melts and burns you :confused:

[Flamin_Squirrel]

I've got to get me some of that :) Though I want to use it to make a squeezy foam hammer that, if you hit someone with it hard enough, turns solid and kills them. Slapstick murder, there's not a court in the land would commit.

LOL

Very good :cool:

[yorkie_chris]

Well think about it if you hit it at enough speed then you might as well use a steel plate, theres only so much armor can do (at the same thickness) before theres enough force going through the plate to damage you.
Try decellerate 100kg within that 1/2" of armor and theres only so far it can protect.

Cool idea, and probably better than current foam, but not going to work miracles.

[northwind]

Very true... But I think the real use for this is going to be the flexibility, it might not save your life but it might save you from crippling injury. Imagine a boot that's flexible enough to walk on but that solidifies on impact, frinstance. Or finger protection on a glove.

[yorkie_chris]

You've got a point there, be like medieval armor without the sharp bits lol

[northwind]

Unless you're Soulkiss, as you'd have foam pointy bits made :mrgreen:

[wyrdness]

For more information see the manufacturers web site http://d3olab.com
There are already bike gloves that use this - http://www.racergloves.com

[John Burt]

Wow pointy armour and killer foam jammers Soulkiss and Northy wierdness all we need know is some of Hovises randomness!