Liquid Body Armor & Virtual-Reality Screens: The High Tech Future of Warfare

Daily Galaxy ^ | 05 Nov 2007 | Rebecca Sato

[BGHater]

[Hegemony Cricket]

Hmmm. Liquid Body Armour to keep you from getting ‘splashed’ - what a concept...

[ClearCase_guy]

The eventual goal.

[Crazieman]

Cool!

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

Not to be confused with Liquor Body Armor which actually seems to result in greater injuries.

[BGHater]

[catman67]

Read the book “Starship Tropers”. Robert Heinlen predicted much of this years ago. (Don’t watch the movie, it’s a piece of crap!)

[freepertoo]

This is so funny. I was just about to type, “Iron-Man, enter and sign in, please.”

[Hegemony Cricket]

RAH is great, although I haven’t read Starship Troopers, yet. Keyword yet.

[RinaseaofDs]

I was JUST thinking that.

Iron Man was my FAVORITE super hero when I was a kid. He was the original geek/warrior. An engineer with a bad heart builds a suit which treats his heart condition and gives him superstrength, jet boots, boot skates, pulse weapons in his gloves, etc.

To think that soon, most of the features designed into Iron Man’s suit will be sort of outmoded.

Here’s to Tony Stark, man of the future.

[wastedyears]

[Uriah_lost]

It was a pivotal book for me; changed much of my political outlook. Heinlein was and remains important in more than the literary realm.

[Gator101]

Someday I hope a sight something like this is the last thing "insurgents" see with little chance to take the lives of any of our soldiers with them

[ArrogantBustard]

E. E. Smith had some of this personal armour in the Lensman books even before Heinlein.

[CholeraJoe]

Heinlein also foresaw the “Heads-Up” display, now commonly found in aircraft.

[catman67]

Pivotal for me as well. I am very attracted to the concept in this book that citizenship has to be earned by voluntarily placing yourself at some risk, rather than being bestowed simply by birthright.

[BronzePencil]

A company called d3o makes something like this that pro skiers use - flexible padding that hardens when impacted then goes back to being fleible - it’s pretty cool

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Grq2NzI9nNI

[aegiscg47]

Another good book inspired by Heinlein is Armor by John Steakley. Power armor against alien enemies on a hostile world. Great stuff!

[dblshot]

“cool”

It better come with an air conditioner considering where we’ll be fighting and the increase in global temperatures.