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RL Iron Man

By Ryan Somma | Monday, May 5, 2008, 04:00 AM

So I saw Iron Man this weekend. Totally rocked. I loved the whole superhero as inventor meme. Very exciting. Very DIY (Do It Yourself).

But something hit me as I was driving home from the theater, we can build Iron Man right now. We have the technology.

First take one of Cyberdyne’s¹ Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) exosuit, the suit increases the strength of its user and has a multitude of other applications:

Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL)

Then strap on Yves Rossy’s kerosene-powered jetpack:

Kerosene-Powered Jetpack

Then purchase a whole bunch of ThinkGeek’s Titanium Sporks, and melt them down for the body armor! Voila!

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¹ Yes, named after the fictional company from the Terminator movies. I don’t know if HAL is named after the computer in 2001, which is an acronym play on “I.B.M.” (H->I A->B L->M).

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