I mean, the wallpaper really is resistant and all, but the main reason why the wall isn't colapsing is because that wallpaper is anchored.
Also, those brick walls could be taken out with a punch or even less force without the paper... so they can't really be used as comparison (it breaks the wall but doesn't break the wallpaper).
I'm not saying the product is a hoax, but just about any thicker plastic sheet would have the same effect.
@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: That's kind of the point. Of course it's going to be anchored or it would just fall apart. I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, but I disagree that just plastic would do what that stuff does. I'm sure it's a whole system and not just the "wallpaper" that stops the damage. #bombproofwallpaper
If I was still in the Army, and living in a tent somewhere, I would *so* wall-paper my entire tent with this. In fact, never mind the canvas, just make the entire tent out of bombproof wallpaper! #bombproofwallpaper
Wish I could find a video of Al Franken in oldschool SNL with his mobile uplink team using satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Damn the DCMA right now. Closest thing I can find is this (and of course the insert image icon isn't appearing while editing):
"Sounds like an awesome tool to keep our soldiers safe, but there are a few problems that would need to be addressed"
Also...the fact that all of this Land Warrior crap they keep developing turns out to be relatively useless on the ground. The battalions that have taken to Afghanistan and Iraq thus far have tossed it in their gear lockers shortly after arriving in country every time. Its trying to solve too many theoretical problems that just don't need a bunch of gizmos to solve. Sure, at face value it seems to make a lot of sense that I would want to know what is approaching me from behind...but really, my PLT and SQD members at my 6 ought to already be handling that. I don't need a radar. #radarhelmet
@Curves: It's the only way to explain why I got busted so much growing up. That, or I just suck at lying (but I refuse to believe that, so there we go). #radarhelmet
Movement. Signals clean. Range, 20 meters.
Range, 17 meters.
15 meters
12 meters
Man this is a big Fucking signal.
9 meters. 7. 6.
It's reading right man, look.
5 meters, man. 4, What the Hell? #radarhelmet
@nutbastard: Yup. If you do everything right, you have a virtual romantic evening with a hott e-lady-of-the-night. If you screw up, you get the same virtual romance holodeck experience except your virtual pee pee cannot get an e-rection, and you are virtually humiliated. And then when you try to explain it to her, she just laughs at you for telling a pair of glasses that you've just had too much wine. #ar
@NightInfinity: Yes, that was a concept video, but I'm very happy to hear that it's been put to real life application at last. I think this is one of the better immediate uses for AR tech.
As something like an engine is assembled in a relatively standard way, it should be easy for the software to recognize parts, and what it is looking at - I also think it would be pretty easy to slap a sticker with a glyph onto parts to ID them and give a little orientation data to a system like this if needed. #ar
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Video is really misleading...
I mean, the wallpaper really is resistant and all, but the main reason why the wall isn't colapsing is because that wallpaper is anchored.
Also, those brick walls could be taken out with a punch or even less force without the paper... so they can't really be used as comparison (it breaks the wall but doesn't break the wallpaper).
I'm not saying the product is a hoax, but just about any thicker plastic sheet would have the same effect.
The video proves nothing. #bombproofwallpaper
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Also...the fact that all of this Land Warrior crap they keep developing turns out to be relatively useless on the ground. The battalions that have taken to Afghanistan and Iraq thus far have tossed it in their gear lockers shortly after arriving in country every time. Its trying to solve too many theoretical problems that just don't need a bunch of gizmos to solve. Sure, at face value it seems to make a lot of sense that I would want to know what is approaching me from behind...but really, my PLT and SQD members at my 6 ought to already be handling that. I don't need a radar. #radarhelmet
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We. Know. All. #radarhelmet
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Range, 17 meters.
15 meters
12 meters
Man this is a big Fucking signal.
9 meters. 7. 6.
It's reading right man, look.
5 meters, man. 4, What the Hell? #radarhelmet
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As something like an engine is assembled in a relatively standard way, it should be easy for the software to recognize parts, and what it is looking at - I also think it would be pretty easy to slap a sticker with a glyph onto parts to ID them and give a little orientation data to a system like this if needed. #ar