What materials best protect a egg better when drop?

Try bubble wrap in a Styrofoam box. Also, use a grocery bag as a parachute.

Visco-elastic memory foam. It was initially developed by NASA to cushion and deflect the effects of gravitational pull experienced by astronauts during take off. Due to its success, it was commeically used to fabricate pillows, and matresses for beds for critically ill or injured people in the hospital... I think they sell it in those in television programmes where you call to shop... Anyways, did they say you have to use solid substances instead of liquid? Liquid can be a very good impact absorber. Basically, you just trap an egg inside a big balloon, (or, I'm serious, condom) and filled it up with viscous fluids. Check out this video anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw

The key is to be able to spread the load to as much surface area of the egg as possible, while having your protective material absorb as much of the shock within itself as possible. What comes to mind are foam materials or bubble wraps that would use the air space to cushion the forces of the drop.

I think the materials suggested are good, I think we did an experiment once to see how far we could drop an egg. The group that made their egg land with the point down won. Their egg dropped the fartherest with out so much as cracking. They used news paper around the egg. Then they placed the egg in a cone shaped shere with the egg point down. I think the cone may have been a stryrofoam cup turned upside down. A little hole was made in the bottom for the egg. to set in. Then wrapped with more newspaper, taped and placed in a box. The box was filled with news paper.It seems the box was a butter box. We all had the same size box. The box was dropped so the egg landed with the point down. It was dropped several steps on to cement.