Not quite sintered armorgel but...

[andygates]

Behold the Ribcap, a hat or helmet-liner made with something called d3o, a responsive material which is flexible normally but goes rigid and energy-absorbing on impact (website - wikipedia).  This is a goofy tank helmet liner one from Streetgadgets which made me think of Tank ravenbait, smokin' a fag and smashing beer bottles over her head just because.

Could it mean the death of the bike helmet as oldschool cotton caps get techno?  I'd love to think so.

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[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

I happened across this stuff a year or so ago, while (amusingly) I was looking up the quote about sintered armorgel from Snowcrash ("feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books"). It was mentioned somewhere, and of course was immediately likened to sintered armorgel.

I like the fact that d3o went immediately for sports applications. Armor Holdings, Inc., is going in a more predictable direction.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Meh, I'm way more likely to fall down a hill or smash a beer bottle over my head for fun that I am to start a land war in Asia!

The last thing the world needs, to be frank, is a lot of comfortably invulnerable Americans - unless they're yelling "Dude!" and hurtling off a Himalayan ridge.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I WANT one!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Sixty quid. Plus whatever it costs for a slab of beers, obviously :)