Darryl Lyons’ Blog

A couple of years ago the Terry Tate ads were all the rage on the net. A friend of mine just sent me this again, and it still makes me laugh.

Researchers have figured out a way of creating “liquid armor”. This from ScienCentral:

The liquid - called shear thickening fluid is actually a mixture of hard nanoparticles and nonevaporating liquid. It flows normally under low-energy conditions, but when agitated or hit with an impact it stiffens and behaves like a solid. This temporary stiffening occurs less than a millisecond after impact, and is caused by the nanoparticles forming tiny clusters inside the fluid.

Of course has its primary applications in the military, but certainly could be used in all sorts of protective clothing. ScienCentral has a video demonstrating the amazing stuff.

This is too funny not to post. Some guys have put together a clip of Neo vs. Robocop. Some really clever editing here between the two films.