The d3o egg test

[KILLERThreeSixNine]

YEAH!!! GRAVITY WORKS!

[DasBasdoInc]

@KILLERThreeSixNine well, since the budget cuts, gravity only works on teusdays

[michel6]

Stupid video and stupid witch laugh at the end. What more will come, tele tubbies?

[noisyneil]

completely pointless. this test doesn't show d3o's properties at all? you could do this with many gels. i agree you should wrap an egg in d3o and hit it with a hammer... 

[briishspy]

how does the d30 react under constant pressure, like if it was being crushed and it had no where to move to?

[rimor51]

What are you trying to test? If the egg hits the d3o material fast enough then it should harden and then the egg would break on impact... If you want to do a traditional "egg test" you should use more pliable d3o and wrap it around the egg and then drop it on a hard surface.

[ashthundercliffe]

i bet by pillow can do better :P

[TheFucktardTV]

Where did you get the d3o?

[drstikit]

Did that egg just bounce?

[vernymax]

nERD alert!

[MIMO0506]

is it a real egg?

[kingdarko]

1.5 meters is not really an achivement in the egg test. There has been a material that can do the same thing with an egg at 4 or 5 stories high.

[NewtMessiah60]

wow, d3o is gonna make a lot of money once the military gets interested in it...

[MrSwannyboy]

guys... pause it and with luck you c that there is no egg... its a round d3o ball...

[PersonNo1]

You do know REAL chicken eggs are anywhere from pink to red, don't you?

White eggs are the result of a handful of chemicals added to chicken's food in farms, but you can still buy "Free Range" eggs, which means the chickens where the eggs come from are not held captive.

[fairtony]

@PersonNo1 the most common egg shell types are brown and white, and it is not known what makes a chicken lay either, but it is believed to be passed via genome

[TheLordstrider]

what happend .... couldnt see a thing :s

[cregbr]

The interesting thing about 3Do is not just that it is non-Newtonian (goes from liquid to solid under force) but the amount of energy that is absorbed in making the phase change.

The more interesting experiment to me would be from what height can you drop an egg enwrapped in 3Do and still have it not break.

[1984gopig]

how much is cost is

[fairtony]

@1984gopig good point

[easternslavic]

I'm sure the force still travels through the d3o...it's common sense.

[iamusari2]

what's this "common sense" you speak of?

[madcowdisguise]

If it traveled through it, it would serve no purpose. It absorbs the shock of the blow.

[matbroomfield]

Surely, more accurately, it redistributes the force - so the shock is spread over a wider area? I mean, the energy must go somewhere mustn't it?

[fairtony]

@matbroomfield the energy is used to allign the d3o molecules into an organised, interlocking solidlike material. this particular material is good because it requires a lot of energy to do it. also it slows the deceleration (ms^-2), so the force/time is alot smaller, so the egg is not given enough energy to break the shell

[stormscr3]

Memory foam works much better ... you could also drop from much higher

[cai0bash]

where do you buy d30?

[Cjshappyplace]

tech21

[kamikazeOS]

you are missing the point d3O reacts..depending on the force applied

because the egg is light the material reacts accordingly.

[MammaleousMaximus]

Lame, dupont dropped an egg off a 2 story building in the 1950's on a mat of experimental stuff and it didn't break.

[Bachishaman]

video proof?

[MammaleousMaximus]

If the vid of it is on youtube, its super hard to find. I remember seeing it on TLC or some sci tv channel, not sure if it was a topic on kevlar or something similar, but they were talking about crazy materials, and how Dupont was the leader in synthetic materials.

[fairtony]

@MammaleousMaximus non-nuteonian material has been arround for a very long time, neuton himself experimented on it, and didnt like it.

it is quite possible that a publicity event was done in the 1950s, but it is only now that the tech has got good, and cheap. hense it is becoming more mainstream.

[matbroomfield]

Not only that, but the shape of an egg dissipates force anyway. I've seen eggs dropped from a good height (off a roof?) onto concrete with no padding and survive provided they landed precisely on their points.

This was a complete non-experiment that proved nothing about the material.

[PrometheusSD7]

Camera man FAILS.

[thegallery]

isn't d3o meant to become rigid on impart; shouldn't it be like the egg hitting stone? hmmm

[Nyxion95]

It actually ABSORBS the impact.

[NiMipAustralia]

if it absorbed it, the egg shouldn't have bounced.

[Nyxion95]

It's more like silly putty. It'll absorb impact AND bounce. By your "no bouncing" logic both of the mars rovers should have been destroyed..

[nintenj09]

That's what I'm wondering, It's supposed to become hard, so this experiment is extremely, pointless. If one really wanted to do a test with the D3O substance and an Egg, they should wrap the egg in it and strike, Because that would show the D3O doing what it should do, becoming hard upon impact.

[radar77377]

i agree

[Wast3m]

@nintenj09 another property of d3o is good impact absorption;maybe that is what they are testing here.

[Camelotz]

@nintenj09 the egg is wrap around the D3O in the following link. /watch?v=LWXBQZfAI_M&feature=r­elated

too bad there is no english subtitle

[vernymax]

@nintenj09 yeah, nitiwits

[malbeker]

@nintenj09 they so it goes rock hard but what it actually does is it transcends the energy of the impact across the whole sheet therefore absorbing all the the force of the impact. there is a video where they wrap someone's finger in d30 and hit it with a hammer and it was fine

[NeonShadez]

@nintenj09 i think with the egg it depends how much d3o ther is like if its just a thin layer like wat they have it probably wont do that. But when companies put it in gear its just marketting so it practicly useless but in BIG even HUGE amounts it would work great.

[fairtony]

@thegallery no, because the kinetic energy of the egg is changed into the chemical and kinetic energy of the d3o particles interlocking. this process slows the egg, as it takes its kinetic energy from the egg.

[bluefox1287]

@fairtony There is no chemical energy change. Chemical energy would happen if new chemical bonds were formed. interlocking particles is purely physical. so the kinetic energy of the egg is maintained as kinetic energy throughout the d3o sheet.... but i want to know the end result of the egg.

[garan]

33,3k views o.O.. this vid was lame

[BadKidProduction]

worst fuckin video ever

[tbshmkr]

Is that cheering or jeering?

[ypud]

Shit camera work

[rech12]

tyhgfhstryhts

[NL59FIFTY]

Are u retarded? d3o is for protection asics gel is just for crap?

[48BILLION]

i actually think your the retarded one!

[krupple]

you're*

[48BILLION]

thank you! and 6 negative thumbs? you guys!!! you shouldn't have! it's too much!!

[TrueEaglesFan]

there was no need for that. It was totally uncalled for 48Billion

[bran3500]

that named protec balls

[PeterPAM7]

you should have used this for a hellmet before you damaged your brain

[ophello]

and...why did you move the camera AWAY FROM THE IMPACT YOU TWIT?!

[roidroid]

this will protect you when you get kicked in the eggs

[mephis]

The best thing ever. We really are in the future!! Anyone knows what happens when you heat the stuff?

[palledino]

What is with that chicks laugh at the end? She needs to get arrested for that. Put me off the egg completely..

[Crobbins2103]

Well d3o isnt for dropping eggs onto lol its for impacts and speed impacts, not eggs falling onto it and staying in tact. People use it for padding for when they hit their head, i dont see what an egg falling onto it has anything to do with anything at all.

[piposak]

try to put a steel plate on your head and hit it with hammer this shows that if you hit something it wont hurt and u still have got protection

[Gr1mReapa]

@piposak

this stuff obviously has alot mroe potential, you could use it as personal protection like on the sky news video or imagine having this in all the cars in the world.

insurance companies would rage

[piposak]

@Gr1mReapa Yep. Last month I bought Impact shorts from RED with d3o and they pretty much saved my ass lots of times when boarding on icy terrain. It's worth the money.

[blacksabbath4242]

i cant even see it break fucktard

[youutubestinks]

and a fast shooter speed :P

[youutubestinks]

ahmm i supose it should be interesting but the egg cant be seen when falling, only you guys cheering :S the cameraman must focus on the target not in the people :P some lessons required

[ruthyd3o]

watch this space guys...

[staver76]

@ruthyd3o Where did you buy d3o from?



[7rint]

to get slow motion simply turn up the frame rate on the camera and slow it down during editing. you need a faster frame rate so it doesn't look blurry.

[markusdoniec]

aren't you supposed to cover the egg with the d3o instead of droping it onto

[Karletto555]

is there any difference if u are driving a car at 50km/h and smash in a tree or ur parked (in your car) and somebody crashes in your car with 50km/h?

[susanpeach]

wtf?! it doesnt even show the result. obviously they're happy but i'd like to see

[willff]

awesome

[usherzx]

that was pretty amazing

[jfdimarco]

This needs to be redone with several camera angles, and slow motion..

I'd like to see some better footage of that egg test. From what I have seen in my poking around about d3o today, I'm impressed.

[ruthyd3o]

yeah you're right that would be really good to see, it was more of a bit of fun to see what would happen, but it would be cool to see what it looks like in slow motion for sure.

[ruthyd3o]

yeah we thought so! It actually got to 1.6 meters! It's magic...

[tomwn2002]

wicked :)