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Sounds cool. One annoying bit of breathless (and brainless) enthusiasm stuck out though: "In fact, diamond is the hardest substance known to man, there is literally nothing we could use that could offer more protection."

While diamonds are extremely hard, they are brittle, and shatter relatively easily.



Exactly. Not forgetting that radiation protection has nothing to do with the hardness of the casing. Lead is nowhere near hard and is one of the most used materials to shield from radiations.


Maybe it's my lack of imagination or not having English as a native language, but how can something be "hard" and at the same time shatter easily?

EDIT: nvm found the answer via Google

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-diamond-hard-yet-brittle


Even better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness

I read an enlightening discussion on HN a few months back about "hardness". I was under the impression professional scientists/researchers do not use the generic terms "hard" or "hardness". Outside of marketing, I presume they would employ concise measurements like ductility, elastic stiffness, plasticity, strain, strength, toughness, viscoelasticity, and viscosity.


Relatively, but don't most electronics shatter much more easily? In a traumatic event that shatters my embedded diamond-powered pacemaker, isn't the squishy rest of me much worse off already?




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