Designers and engineers face an almost impossible challenge -- to use truck bed liner paint, normally used to protect vehicles from scratches and knocks, to protect an entire building from a massive explosion.

The Smash Lab teams tests a special type of carbon fiber used to reinforce tunnels to see if it can protect a home from destructive hurricanes.

Can an airbag on the front of a train protect the occupants of a car it collides with? The Smash Lab team intends to find out and will also find out if a train crash can get any worse.

The Smash Lab team thinks carbon fiber fabric can be used to hurricane proof a house. That includes damage from wind and flying debris. Their control tests don't fair well because they're looking to handle a category 5.

The Smash Lab team tries to devise a fire escape for skyscrapers using nothing more than magnetism.

Smash Lab evaluates a high tech bubble wrap filled with fire retardant to see if it can protect a plane in flight from an on-board bomb. Successful or not it takes a lot of explosions to test the theory.

The team takes to the water in this episode -- with parachutes! They will try to engineer a system that not only deploys fast enough to eject someone from an out of control boat - but also slows them down enough to safely hit the water.