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What is the best way to protect your laptop or smartphone? By covering them in bubble wrap? Or by restricting their use only to well-padded areas? No. A hi-tech Silly Putty is your best bet, according to manufacturer Tech21. d3o_02 D3O in its raw, stretchy form Tech21 last night launched its range of smartphone and laptop …

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  1. Richard 81

    Custard

    You could use custard, flour and water or indeed any non-Newtonian liquid.

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  2. Dafydd Lawrence

    Dragons' Den graduate

    This was a contender on the show and he got backing from one of them, can't remember who though!

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  3. James Sherwood
    Megaphone

    @ Dafydd Lawrence

    The inventor received backing from Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Boffin

      Not quite but sort of...

      Tech21 exclusively license the use of d3o for mobile/laptop cases from d3o Labs - the inventor of the putty stuff. Tech21 have done nothing more than put it into cases. So, whilst they may have invented the case, they didn't invent the actual putty stuff - d3o.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    Hmmm

    Surely something that hardens transmitting the shock into the device is not as good as something that stays soft and deforms diffusing any shock wave? Sounds like a badly thought out gimmick to me...

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