I feel like we are ways out from seeing anything like it. From what I’ve seen non-Newtonian fluids typically take a decent amount of energy to stop something and sound wouldn’t have much energy compared to something like a bullet.


On a sidenote does Decibullz own a patent on percussive hearing protection or am I looking up the wrong term? I feel like there must be other hearing protection out there that is effective against sudden loud sounds.

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    5 months ago

    I think a fluid that you put in your ear muffles everything and makes it hard to hear. Being newtonion or non-newtinion. I can’t imagine a way for it to be useful as a general solution. You’d need to take it out anyways in order to hear normally. And then I don’t know how this would compare to an already existing high quality hearing protection. There are some available that supposedly are somewhat linear in the frequency spectrum.