Hasta La Ideas

It may not be as pretty as the one in your living room, but it has other properties that your wall paper don’t. It’s blast-proof. And wrecking-ball proof as Popsci has verified The secret behind this strength (or maybe remarkable resilience is a Kevlar-like material sandwiched with an elastic polymer. This combination has proved so successful that the US Army is considering using it in their bases and compounds in Iraq and Afghanistan. Us civilians might have a chance to build ourselves a bomb-proof home, too, since a commercial is said to be under development. Christmas gift of the year 2010? After the jump there’s a video from a test that Popular Science did using a wrecking ball.