This tech is frankly.....wow!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20693705

$15.5M!!!!

You can buy this stuff in a can from your local building suppliers. 

 

Any advancement in Battlefield Trauma treatment has got to be a good thing. According to the blurb, this foam can be easily removed in one lump but surely any loose bits would be ripped out at the same time. 

Perhaps, but are we talking bits of foam, or bits of the victim? 

While it's battlefield applications are obvious, imagine the civilian opportunities once it is perfected....

Hey ye', you could fill up old folk and they would never get cold again. 

With the added bonus that they would float, saving Saga cruises fortunes in providing lifeboats on their cruise ships