Halliburton moves to save executives from global warming

A few years ago we were asked to take on a big challenge. In the R&D department at Halliburton we're usually dealing with oil rigs, things like that, drilling, questions of energy extraction. And they gave us a big challenge in 2001. They said, "We want something that's going to be able to save a human being, no matter what Mother Nature throws at him." And so, this is the answer: this is the Halliburton SurvivaBall. As some of you probably know, amoebas can gather together -- these are designed like amoebas, as single cells. But they can gather together and actually form another body. They aggregate, and they differentiate function. And so these one-celled organisms come together as a single body....

...The suits look like large plastic bubbles with six hands, two speakerphone-looking ears and an opening for the executive's face...  more here...