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/...286736,00.html

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

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

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...286736,00.html

Looks interesting, I was just reading that article.

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.

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

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.

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"

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

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.

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

Originally Posted by 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.

LOL

Very good