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IBM Files Patent for Bullet Dodging Bionic Body Armor
techfragments ^ | 2009-02-13 10:39:43 | ibm

Posted on 02/24/2009 2:39:54 PM PST by Flavius

IBM has filed a patent (US 7484451) for Bionic Body Armor, that could essentially allow us to dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix. The armor would scan areas for incoming projectiles and when one is detected the system would deliver a shock to the muscles causing a swift reflexive action away from the projectile. Here's what the patent describes the body armor as:

A method of protecting a target from a projectile propelled from a firearm comprises detecting an approaching projectile, continuously monitoring the projectile and transmitting an actual position of the projectile to a controller, computing an estimated projectile trajectory based upon the actual position of the projectile, determining an actual position of a target with a plurality of position sensors and a plurality of attitude sensors, determining whether the estimated projectile trajectory coincides with the actual position of the target, and triggering a plurality of muscle stimulators operably coupled to the controller and to the target when the estimated projectile trajectory coincides with the actual position of the target, wherein the muscle stimulators stimulate the target to move in a predefined manner, and wherein the target moves by an amount sufficient to avoid any contact with the approaching projectile. The projectile may be detected in the detecting step by emitting an electromagnetic wave from a projectile detector and receiving the electromagnetic wave after the electromagnetic wave has been reflected back toward the projectile detector by the projectile.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: 2nd; banglist; bodyarmor; fbi; miltech
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makes the 2nd more obsolete by the day only the noble ruling class will be able to afford one

peasants well you know what you get

1 posted on 02/24/2009 2:39:54 PM PST by Flavius
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To: Flavius

dodging faster than Obama at a press conference?


2 posted on 02/24/2009 2:40:48 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Flavius

So I can put someone into a wall with a party popper!...

Woot!..


3 posted on 02/24/2009 2:42:17 PM PST by Crim (Dont frak with the Zeitgeist....http://falconparty.com/)
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To: Flavius

This could be hilariously exploited, and perhaps dangerous in combat.


4 posted on 02/24/2009 2:42:38 PM PST by benjibrowder (Looking forward to kicking Obama out of office in 2012.)
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To: Flavius
"...makes the 2nd more obsolete by the day..."

Nope...just makes small unit tactics more critical. Can't dodge two bullets coming from opposite directions.

5 posted on 02/24/2009 2:43:41 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Flavius

"Early tests of the new body armor were 'problematic'...."

6 posted on 02/24/2009 2:44:17 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: benjibrowder

..”dance for me” pow,pow,pow...


7 posted on 02/24/2009 2:44:48 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: ourusa; theKid51

IBM ping


8 posted on 02/24/2009 2:45:51 PM PST by bmwcyle (The end is near and this time I mean it. Get right with JESUS NOW!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Could you please let me be paranoid its the only thing i got left.


9 posted on 02/24/2009 2:46:33 PM PST by Flavius
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To: Flavius

Machineguns will make ya weave like a 2 year old ferret on a triple espresso trying to breakdance.


10 posted on 02/24/2009 2:47:19 PM PST by Centurion2000 (01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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To: Flavius
From the article:

UPDATE: IBM has since, pulled the patent.

11 posted on 02/24/2009 2:47:58 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: Joe 6-pack
Frankly, from the sounds of it it'll be easier than that. Throw a handful of rocks toward someone wearing this high-speed armor, then shoot at them when impulses directing the body toward conflicting movement freezes them in place.

'Course I'd hate to take a Taser while wearing a system geared to make sure I get electrical impulses in a plurality of places to keep me safe.
12 posted on 02/24/2009 2:48:46 PM PST by faloi
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To: Joe 6-pack

You probably could, but the wearer might wind up being electrocuted.


13 posted on 02/24/2009 2:51:30 PM PST by skimbell
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To: Flavius
<>i>"Could you please let me be paranoid its the only thing i got left."

My tactics are driven by paranoia ;-)

14 posted on 02/24/2009 2:54:16 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: skimbell; faloi

A simple “L”-shaped ambush would have the wearers break-dancing like a racoon on crack.


15 posted on 02/24/2009 2:55:20 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Flavius
"allow us to dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix"


16 posted on 02/24/2009 2:56:29 PM PST by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: Flavius
Let's see, incoming at 3000 fps from 50 yards (150 feet) away. Flight time 50 milliseconds.

Point of impact chest center, average target size 20”. Dodge distance ten inches. Dodge speed (10/12)/.05

Dodge velocity 17 fps, initial velocity 0, time .05= acceleration is 340 ft/sec^2, or about eleven G in round numbers.

This assumes 100% detection at the time of projectile launch. Any delay adds greatly to the acceleration; if the suit relies on an acoustic signal, the projectile impacts before the sound.

So if this scheme works, the subject will be exposed to an 11G BANG to dodge the bullet, assuming that the suit dodges in the correct direction.

Ouch.

17 posted on 02/24/2009 2:56:37 PM PST by DBrow
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To: DBrow

How well will it do against buckshot?


18 posted on 02/24/2009 2:57:40 PM PST by Centurion2000 (01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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To: Flavius
Newton said it best: F = MA

I think I'll let somebody else wear that body armor.

19 posted on 02/24/2009 2:58:46 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: DBrow

So if this scheme works, the subject will be exposed to an 11G BANG to dodge the bullet, assuming that the suit dodges in the correct direction.


And it seems the bang comes from the subject’s own muscles, triggered by an electric shock. I wonder if nerve impulses and muscle action are really fast enough to do this for any nearby shots.


20 posted on 02/24/2009 3:01:54 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed
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