Yesterday I wore the costume just to be sure that I'll be able to wear it on Sunday for the show. The suit was a huge success at my latest convention and worked quite well! Thank you so much James! Well I have to say, it's awesome ! - Fraternali Johnson I received the suit and weapons yesterday. I'm Iron man hahaha, love it! - Shawn Dietrich Jeff Collinsīuyfullbodyarmors has already made my dreams come true. I could not move even a foot of space per hour since so many people gathered around in lines to get their picture taken. Everyone wanted to have their picture taken with Iron Man, and the compliments I received were just amazing. The Mark XLIII was a HUGE success! I felt like a celebrity for the 3 hours I was there. Subscribe to War is Boring: /feed/war-is-boring.I want to say a huge thanks to you and your team for making my day yesterday at the Denver Comic Con. War is Boring is going to Syria! Support our efforts with a small donation. Science fiction is also effective as a cautionary tale about technology and what it could be used for - not necessarily what’s intended. The technology is used to subjugate and separate, and writer-director Blomkamp knows that fear is more powerful when it perverts what already surrounds us. The V-22 is a vertical-lift aircraft commissioned by the Marines now ferrying around Bo, the First Dog.īut Elysium is really a story about fear and control. The planes zooming around trying to catch Damon look a lot like V-22 Ospreys with rockets instead of rotors. That’s a handheld model of a weapon the Navy is developing for use aboard their vessels.Įven the aircraft in Elysium resemble current tech. Late in the movie, Damon grabs a Chemrail gun and uses it to slice apart his enemies. The Pentagon’s advanced research agency, DARPA, is also working on humanoid robots which bear a close resemblance to the film’s deadly enforcer ‘bots. How many do you want? There’s a company in Britain that would love to sell you some. The mercenary Kruger (Sharlto Copley) uses the ‘bot to hunt Damon across the city. A med-bot that looks a lot like BEAR, a support robot designed by Vecna Robotics for all manner of battlefield applications.
DARPA photo Rail guns, Ospreys and robotsĪfter an industrial accident early in the movie, Damon’s character Max is pulled to safety and given medical aid by a surly med-bot. Even the French military is working on a machine suit of its own. Raytheon in in the game too, with it’s impressive-looking XOS2.
But the exoskeleton is still a research project, and HULC’s battery life while moving is limited. Lockheed Martin began testing the HULC with real soldiers in 2011. Lockheed Martin is developing an exoskeleton called HULC - or Human Universal Load Carrier which can let its wearer lift upwards of 200 pounds for lengthy periods. There are people undergoing physical therapy in exoskeletons right now.īut the elderly and infirm aren’t the only people to benefit from exoskeletons. In Japan two companies - Honda and Cyberdyne - are already leasing exoskeletons out to hospitals and homes. Powered exoskeletons? They already exist and we don’t even need to drill them into our skeletons. He bleeds around the screws that hold the artificial extremities to his frame. In order to combat the hordes of robots and government agents out to kill him, Matt Damon has an exoskeleton bolted to his irradiated body. The exoskeleton, most notably, is more primitive than what’s already available.ĭon’t mess with man-machine hybrids. 9, is either already here or just a few years away. The tech in Elysium may seem far flung and magical - a panacea med-bed certainly is - but quite a bit of what’s on display in the movie, which hit theaters on Aug. Often the dream precedes reality, but that isn’t the case with Elysium. Originally Tony Stark 's Mark II armor, the armor was taken by Rhodes and heavily modified by Justin Hammer with a variety of weapons and armor additions. The list of technological innovations first dreamed up in the minds of the science fiction writer is too numerous to recount here. The Mark I War Machine Armor (also known as the JRXL-1000 Variable Threat Response Battle Suit) is the first armor given to James Rhodes, who used it to become War Machine. Not to mention a rigged-up pneumatic supersuit.
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This is the Pretoria-punk world of director Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, a big budget summer sci-fi action adventure where an ex-con played by Matt Damon tackles heavy social issues with a shaved head full of government secrets. Saucer drones patrol the skies, rail guns cut men to ribbons, robots enforce order, bullets seek their targets and exoskeletons confer superhuman strength and agility. From exoskeletons to rail guns, the future is now
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