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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."
...So some guy puts cornstarch, water, and orange food dye in a Ziploc bag around his laptop and it makes headlines?!?!?
No thanks, I just ate.
Seriously, though, what are you going for here? Just throwing out random sci-fi books? I don't remember anything like this material in Ringworld, for what it's worth. Ringworld had an near-indestructible glass-like material, a room-temperature super-conductor, and some sci-fi super-glue.
Maybe next time you could provide a little more detail, like six words instead of five? And drop that fucking annoying ", anyone?" meme while you're at it, then you could conserve a word and not sound so dumb.
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