Now, you can have a chance to complain back when a basketball bat hits you on your head without worrying to go faint. It sounds like a cartoon character going shapeless to jump up again and again.
However, Mr. Palmer, a Brighton-based engineer has actually developed ‘d3o’, orange foam that could bear even a bone-crushing blow similar to that he bore after a snowboarding accident.
Even if a spade or shelves hit you on most vulnerable parts of your body like skull, knee or any part where bones are less protected by muscles, this foam will absorb much of it.
This lightweight material has shown an obvious incorporation into a host of sports gear, including ski suits, shin pads and motorcycle gloves. Still more, it’s a security for tasks, which involves riot police in action.
Mr. Palmer just described the formulation of d3o as product of some polymers saying,
There’s a number of fluids that when you try to move them quickly they don’t like it and they stick together. The most obvious example from the kitchen is corn flour and water.
Accepting that d3o may not be the exact substitute for an helmet, Palmer said that it can accompany you in your risky tasks inside your clothing like d3o-lined woolen beanie hats if you prefer that instead of snowboarding helmets.
The material has already shown its worth for American skiers at last year’s Winter Olympics in Turin, but still its exact formulation is a trade secret.
Have a look at video demonstrating the capability of this doh like stuff.
Via: Dailymail
