Neatorama calls it bomb-proof wallpaper. No matter what you call it, the X-Flex Blast Protection System is quite possibly the world’s most indestructible sheet of paper. Basically, it’s Kevlar webbing (like the kind you use in a bullet-proof vest) writ large, with an adhesive backing so you can just plaster it to the inside of any wall, window, or floor that you need to make nearly impossible to destroy.
I’ve never seen anything quite like this. Just a little strip of it on one side of a wall helps support the bricks or concrete through any amount of abuse. A wrecking ball would normally make short work of a red brick or concrete block wall, but with a strip of that adhesive webbing, it takes a beating but keeps on standing. Even when the wall does take damage enough to bow in, the webbing holds the bricks together and keeps the wall from collapsing!
Talk about your Survival Town, USA. If one strip of this paper is so damage resistant, I just wonder how two or three pieces together might work to support buildings and toughen car door panels.
Best Of What’s New 2009: Bombproof Wallpaper Test from PopSci.com on Vimeo.
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