Liquid Armour

[Vile]

Cross posted from the SFRPG Science Labs:

Anyone who has ever mixed cornflour with water will know where this comes from. If that process isn't magic, I don't know what is.

Non-Newtonian Liquid Armour

 

[Treebore]

That video does not do a good job of illustrating what it is supposedly doing.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

If I remember correctly 'Aftermath!' had this as a type of sports armour in 1980.

 

[Vile]

That video does not do a good job of illustrating what it is supposedly doing.

I thought it was very illustrative. You can see the kevlar-armoured target undergoing horrendous distortion compared to the liquid-armoured one. Now imagine that's a torso.

 

[PhilHibbs]

That video does not do a good job of illustrating what it is supposedly doing.

Did you click on the second video link at the bottom?