This assignment pops up at design and engineering schools globally: Cradle an egg in a cardboard structure of your own design, then drop it off a roof and keep the egg from breaking.
If only we were allowed to use Beta Gel instead. The new material from Tokyo-based Geltec is being used in shoe soles, but as you can see in the video, the darn stuff somehow protects an egg from breaking after being dropped from 22 meters. And it's like, only a couple inches thick!
via japan probe
Industrial designer Philippe Schlesser also experimented with eggs, check out his video at http://plippo.com/film/film_eggs.html .
Eggs dipped in latex, so they won't (all) break. Nice vid!
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Eggs dipped in latex, so they won't (all) break. Nice vid!