Liquid Metal Boats....

[ianabc]

No more thermoplastics ... no more flimsy roto moulded hulls....

http://www.liquidmetal.com/technology/

 

[wagenaar]

Seems too good to be true. I always wonder what is NOT being said in this type of information. Most of all the price will make the use of this material probably impossible for most of the every-day-applications.

 

[nedmin]

when I worked in the steel industry, they spent an absolute fortune and years trying to develop a chemical way of producing steel from iron ore rather than heat .still doing it the old way.was I think too expensive.is this?

 

[SoulFireMage]

Well in the interest of skeptism and seeing if there was anything to it, I googled.

Here's one link that may be of interest.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/liquidmetal.html

Nasa seem to think it's real enough.