Project Grizzly inventor crafts real-world Halo suit for military use


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Project Grizzly inventor crafts real-world Halo suit for military use

While it's not likely that you'll encounter the Arbiter on any given day, the slightly off-kilter Project Grizzly inventor has gone out of his way (and possibly his mind) to create what resembles a real-life Halo suit, sporting protection from gunfire and ensuring you an award at Covenant gatherings. Troy Hurtubise created the suit, dubbed Trojan, in hopes of protecting Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and US soldiers in Iraq, and considering that it has withstood knives, bullets, light explosives, clubs, and even a round from an elephant gun, it sounds like quite the winner. Proclaimed to be the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armor," Trojan is crafted from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam, and features nearly endless compartments, morphine / salt containers, knife and gun holsters, emergency lights, a built-in recording device, pepper spray, ingestible transponder for those "last resort" scenarios, and there's even a fresh air system powered by solar panels within the helmet. Mr. Hurtubise claims the 18 kilograms (40 pounds) suit is comfortable enough to make road trips in (yes, he tried it), and if any major military would take him up on it, they could reportedly be produced for "around $2,000 apiece." Now that's a bargain, folks.

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Source: Engadget

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This guy has done the impossible!!!

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Inventor hopes to sell armour suit to the military

By Wade Hemsworth

The Hamilton Spectator

(Jan 11, 2007)

The grizzly man is back, and this time he's ready to take on bullets and bombs.

Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-born inventor who became famous for his bulky bear-protection suit by standing in front of a moving vehicle to prove it worked, has now created a much slimmer suit that he hopes will soon be protecting Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

He has spent two years and $15,000 in the lab out back of his house in North Bay, designing and building a practical, lightweight and affordable shell to stave off bullets, explosives, knives and clubs. He calls it the Trojan and describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour."

Using the hard-learned lessons of his Project Grizzly experience -- a 20-year odyssey that included a National Film Board documentary, an appearance on CNN and personal bankruptcy -- he's ready to start selling his newest idea.

Already, he says, the suit has stood up to bullets from high-powered weapons, including an elephant gun. The suit was empty during the ballistics tests, but he's more than ready to put it on and face live fire.

"I would do it in an instant," he said. "Bring it on."

Yesterday, he returned to Hamilton to show off the suit, hoping to generate some publicity that will get him the meetings he wants with military and police outfitters.

On Saturday, he plans to wear it to Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto and wait for the reporters. It shouldn't take long to create a stir.

Hurtubise, 43, wore his suit -- helmet and all -- on the four-hour drive down south, partly as a way of making sure it would be comfortable enough in the field. Even sitting on his armoured butt cheeks, he said he was fine.

As he drove his black pickup in his black getup, other drivers gawked and honked. Just south of Huntsville, he was delighted to be pulled over and gave an apprehensive OPP officer a close-up look at the suit.

Once he established that he could see just fine in his helmet and that the guns attached to his magnetic holsters were just props, Hurtubise was free to continue his trip.

The whole suit -- which draws design inspiration from Star Wars, RoboCop, Batman and video games -- is made from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam.

Its many features include compartments for emergency morphine and salt, a knife and emergency light. Built into the forearms are a small recording device, a pepper-spray gun and a detachable transponder that can be swallowed in case of trouble.

Dangling between the legs, that would be a clock.

In the helmet, there's a solar-powered fresh-air system and a drinking tube attached to a canteen in the small of the back. A laser pointer mounted in the middle of the forehead is ready to point to snipers, while LED lights frame the face.

The whole suit comes in at 18 kilograms. It covers everything but the fingertips and the major joints, and could be mass-produced for about $2,000, Hurtubise says.

He said he hopes to earn enough of a living from the suit so he can keep on inventing, but the real reason he did this, he says, is "for the boys."

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Looks like a dumbed down mjnolnir armor. :p Probably one of the older Mark 1 or 2 without an energy shield. (pretty sure the Mark 1 was basically an exoskeleton)

seems like you'd read all the books kiddo... :laugh: :rofl: :p

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I'm no expert when it comes to photography and don't pretend to be so, but is it me or does the head look out of proportion to the rest of the body as though this has been added onto the picture. I would love to believe this as fact but there is something about the picture which casts a doubt in my mind.

Maybe it's me... :)

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Thats all i could find at the minute im at work haha! but you guys should be able to find some... go go

that wasnt directed at you incase you felt i was being a little ungreatful, im also at work :p

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This looks awesome. As for it looking photoshopped, the head is smaller than the body because the halo body is bulkier than his real body.

But the distortions of the pixels looks even more weird...

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I'm no expert when it comes to photography and don't pretend to be so, but is it me or does the head look out of proportion to the rest of the body as though this has been added onto the picture. I would love to believe this as fact but there is something about the picture which casts a doubt in my mind.

Maybe it's me... :)

I agree. lol

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The whole suit -- which draws design inspiration from Star Wars, RoboCop, Batman and video games -- is made from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam.

no where in the article does it even mention halo. really cool looking suit though. the helmet looks a little bulky and ugly.

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no where in the article does it even mention halo. really cool looking suit though. the helmet looks a little bulky and ugly.

halo is a video game :p

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I can imagine the US invading Iran and these Soldiers come out with the gear, the Iranians will go "WTF?!?!?!". :rofl:

Owned!! :spell:

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