[TLI]

The "Iron Man" exoskeleton being worked on by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie (left) is eerily similar to the real Exoskeleton (right) being developed at Raytheon.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Tony Stark had a bad heart - do either of these suits overcome this disability?

[Red Steel]

It seems that all the 60’s and 70’s superpower characters of Stan Lee’s Marvel Comics are destined in at least one Hollywood movie. So whose next? I haven’t yet seen PowerMan on the silver screen.

[skinkinthegrass]

the same Robert *SNORT* *SNORT* Downey Jr.? ....with a reputation / lifestyle of cocaine "problems" / 1988 Atlanta DNC "Sex Romp Video" Convention?

[uptoolate]

thump........thump........thump........thump..bahhhhhhhhh.dommmmmmmmm
thump........thump........thump........thump..bahhhhhhhhh.dommmmmmmmm
“I Am IronMan”..bahhhhhhhhh.dom
bah..bah..bababa
bahdeebahdeebahdeedee....bah....dom....dom.
Has he lost his mind?,
Can he see or is he blind
Can he walk at all?
Or if he moves will he fall?

[toddlintown]

“The “Iron Man” exoskeleton being worked on by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie (left) is eerily similar to the real Exoskeleton (right) being developed at...”

It’s the other way around. I was reading Iron Man back in the early sixties when he looked like a bullet head.

[Amendment10]

As a side note, I saw an Army(?) documentary about this technology years ago, perhaps on the Military Channel. A robotic, back-pack carrying unit was attached to a GI who was walking around with it. The robot connected to the GI with leg braces, the braces not only actually supporting the weight of the back-pack and keeping things in balance regarding the walking motion, but also acting as the steering wheel for the robot, the leg-braces tracking the motion of the GI's legs. Regardess of the weight of the back-pack and robotic unit, the GI was said to have been feeling only about five pounds of weight.

The only thing that I thought was clumsy about the robot is that it was power by a gas engine above the back-pack near the GI's shoulders, if I remember correctly.

Also, the robot in the documentary was a plain Jane, not the flashy, Hollywood-type robots that I see in the picts.