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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."
And this differs from Silly Putty how?
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
In other words: Yes, the surface of your precious Macbook will be scratchfree after the fall, the harddisk will still be toast.
So? A new harddisk is cheaper than a new laptop. And since you diligently maintained your backups...
Rudolf Hess edited Mein Kampf. He was the very first grammar nazi.
"His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, an excess of perspiration wafts through it like a napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel; feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books."
Of course. They evolved to be that way, to maximize their fitness in an environment full of size queens.
Yes, because never in our history (cough, Great Pyramids, cough) have we humans ever been accused of having inadequacy issues.
Somehow I think this "evolution" started well before someone thought to take a truck and bolt a "trunk" on it.
> So? A new harddisk is cheaper than a new laptop. And since you diligently maintained your backups...
Mod parent WAY up. It might be irrelevant for netbooks and cheap notebooks from Best Buy, but if you're talking about a kilobuck+ Macbook or high-end performance notebook, the hard drive isn't just one of its cheapest components... it's also one of its few components that can be easily replaced by end users, with a part that's readily-available even in small towns, often on sale, and frequently would result in improved performance over the original part. Try buying a new Thinkpad keyboard, Macbook case, or Dell motherboard at Best Buy on Sunday afternoon at some city in the midwestern US with a population of ~500k living within a fifty-mile radius. Hell, with the possible exceptions of Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, and Akihabara , I doubt whether there's anyplace you could walk into a retail store and buy stuff like that at all, let alone on a weekend.