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The Orange Goo That Could Save Your Laptop
Barence writes "A British company has patented what can only be described as an orange goo that could save your laptop or iPod after a nasty fall. The amazing material is soft and malleable like putty, but the substance becomes solid instantly after impact. You can punch your fist into a ball of the material sitting on a desk and not feel a thing, according to the staff at PC Pro who have been testing the material, called 3do. It's being used by the military, the US downhill ski team, and motorcycle clothing manufacturers to provide impact protection in the event of a crash. However, it's also appearing in protective cases for laptops and MP3 players."
But is it orange?
Looks like the dyslexia is contagious today.
Isn't that something every man wanted? Sounds like a perfect material for condom!
Though I'd worry orange penis would turn off sex desire.
There is just no way to improve this until you fit your shock absorber with little rockets and sensors to determine when it's about to impact the ground.
A bit like this, perhaps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgXXCSlt7uI
Ask me about repetitive DNA
"SUVs are designed to kill people."
SUVs arent designed, that would imply some kind of thinking behind them.
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Lexdysia you mean!
Of course. They evolved to be that way, to maximize their fitness in an environment full of size queens.
It is very similar to silly putty except that it does not "run" when left sitting on a table. The last thing you want your armor to do is pool around your waste.
I don't think you'd want your waste to pool around your armour, either...
Great! Good thing my boxing gloves are orange, no one is going to notice it. Hehehehe...
My sig is better than your sig.
what can only be described as an orange goo
Around here, we're a technically savvy group with relatively high IQs. You can describe it as a highly viscous non-newtonian fluid containing enough long-chain polymers or waxes to prevent it from flowing freely when at rest, and most of us will get it, and the rest will be able to look it up.
Assuming you're trying to describe it to a bunch of first graders, you can also describe it as "orange silly putty", and it'll be a hell of a lot more accurate than "orange goo".
Raise the bar, people.
Continuing their history of innovation, my MacBook parks the heads of its SSD during a sudden drop. Beat that Dell.
Misinformation is still information, after all.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
But is it orange?
Who cares what color it is? The real question on my mind is: Does it run Linux?
Similar in principle (in vague terms) to how the bonnet of a car (hood to USA people) is designed to crumple so that it absorbs the energy of a crash.
I always assumed that the reason for the crumple was to maximize the cost of repair ultimately necessitating the purchase of a new vehicle.
Microsoft announces that Steve Balmer is getting his office redecorated. All the furnishings are to be coated with a new high-tech orange "goo". No reason was given as to why.
Trip Hawkins cheers as a typo makes 3DO relevant again for the first time in 15 years.
I put the sex in dyslexia!
Plus, most Slashdot users' laptops already have enough goo on them.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Gallagher's gonna be pissed.
you don't want to go downhill skiing in a Star Wars stormtrooper armour
Speak for yourself!
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It won't fit, but this is getting close:
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/worlds-largest-ice-cream-sundae