Metal Foam

Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei of North Carolina State University has created the strongest metal foam ever known. This stuff is amazing. Under pressure, it can compress 80% of it’s original form and still retain its shape. That probably doesn’t mean a lot on paper, but consider this quote about its ability to shield people from the effects of a car wreck:
 

Calculations also predict that in car accidents, when two pieces of [Dr. Rabiei's] composite metal foam are inserted “behind the bumper of a car traveling at 28 mph, the impact would feel the same to passengers as an impact traveling at only 5 mph.”

There have got to be hundreds of thousands of other applications for this material. I wonder how difficult it is to mass produce?