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Super-Suit Fabric Now Available In T-Shirt
Nihon Uni of Japan has developed a t-shirt that can protect you against that occasional slashing attack.
(Nihon Uni knife-resistant t-shirt)
Apparently, the company was worried about malicious crimes that have left late-night convenience store clerks, well, slashed.
The t-shirt owes its super-strength to the ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber used to make the fabric; the claim is that it is the equal of aramaid fiber used in body armor.
Best of all, your supersuit is machine-washable.
SF fans are all in favor of super-suits; check out this real-life progress:
- Skiers Get d3o-Based 'Impact Suits'
An impossible idea - a suit that was both flexible all over and hard as armor all over. - Zetix Blast Resistant Fabric
The idea that a material could become thicker when stretched out is contrary to our usual experience with objects that stretch. - Chameleon T-Shirts With Electrochromic Polymers
A real-life mimetic polycarbon suit?
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