[QUOTE=LA Times]A [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/intl/germany-PLGEO000003.topic"]German tinkerer has[/URL] combined his love of Iron Man movies and passion for laser gadgets to build a real-life version of the super hero's robotic arms, and he has sold the laser-firing device for more than $2,660.Patrick Priebe, 29, of Wuppertal, [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/intl/germany-PLGEO000003.topic"]Germany[/URL], posted a video of his [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYUCl-xCYaw&feature=player_embedded"]"Iron Man Laser Gauntlet"[/URL] on[URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/computer-networking-internet/social-media/youtube-ORCRP00000211004.topic"]YouTube[/URL] on Saturday, showing a red and gold full-metal shell gadget for his arm equipped with two 1.2-watt blue lasers and another two 4-milliwatt red lasers.Priebe demonstrates the device and how it works throughout the first half of the video. Then, at the 2-minute 30-second mark, he begins to use the red lasers to aim at balloons and a blue laser to destroy them.[/QUOTE]
Source: [URL]http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-iron-man-gauntlet-laser-2660-20130122,0,7651323.story[/URL]
[media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYUCl-xCYaw[/URL][/media]
Damn cool.
Now all he needs is a bigger laser and super capacitor and he'll be slowly cutting through steel in no time.
Still pretty boss though.
The power of German engineering
It's amazing that we're getting to the point where a true Iron Man suit isn't science fiction anymore. In 10-15 years we might actually have Iron Man suits.
but did he build it secretly in a cave using only scant resources while being held hostage with a car battery attached to his heart under the constant threat of being discovered by his captors?
0/10 try again filthy german
I want one.
That's fucking awesome
That's pretty cool; all he needs now is to replace the blue lasers with ones that have a much higher energy output (4-5 watts?) and put in some batteries with better energy density, and that thing could do some serious burning.
Was he using lithium batteries in his laser gauntlet?
[QUOTE=Liem;39463942]It's amazing that we're getting to the point where a true Iron Man suit isn't science fiction anymore. In 10-15 years we might actually have Iron Man suits.[/QUOTE]
Not a hope in hell man, we'll have powered exoskeletons definitely since they pretty much already exist, but it'll be a couple of decades before we even have a ground bound iron man suit.
I read somewhere that any existing metal strong enough for an iron man suit would be too heavy, even though he did say at the end of the first film it was made out a gold-titanium alloy
But IMO we need to research arc reactor tech first :v:
That's how we'll win world war III you'll see!
slow news day for the L.A. Times I think
i'm more interested it this in the related videos:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVgbtqsmx54[/media]
looks like something out of Dead Space
More like district 9.
[QUOTE=Liem;39463942]It's amazing that we're getting to the point where a true Iron Man suit isn't science fiction anymore. In 10-15 years we might actually have Iron Man suits.[/QUOTE]
Optimistic, but probably won't.
[QUOTE=Radley;39464577]More like district 9.[/QUOTE]
I would guess inspired by District 9
[QUOTE=Liem;39463942]It's amazing that we're getting to the point where a true Iron Man suit isn't science fiction anymore. In 10-15 years we might actually have Iron Man suits.[/QUOTE]
No we won't, unless some supergenius comes around and manages to make miniaturized fusion, fusion which the brightest minds on the planet have struggled with for decades (and that is building sized, mind you).
Not to mention you'd die really quickly in an Iron Man suit, momentum is a bitch and won't let you go that easily. Get hit with any high caliber weapon and the shock will travel through your armour and smash your internal organs (assuming you manage to make an armour that doesn't get penetrated), lets not even talk about larger stuff like tank cannons. Same thing with flying, you can't accelerate or turn too fast, slam into something at more than 10km/h and you're in for at least a hospital visit.
I'd love if it were possible, but we are very far from it. Even if we find a decent power source, the laws of physics will keep you back (if we could manipulate mass or space decently, we probably could nullify those problems, but that's far ahead even the already improbable power source)
[editline]3rd February 2013[/editline]
Someone could (and should) build a fully functional IR suit though. By that I mean a powered exoskeleton with armour plating and lasers, obviously incapable of flight or any of that stuff that's in the movies, just walk around, cut wood, look cool.
Actually I'm so doing that when I'm done with uni (assuming I have too much free time and money to blow).
If you could build a tiny thorium reactor you would have a good power source for an iron man suit.
[QUOTE=ironman17;39464047]That's pretty cool; all he needs now is to replace the blue lasers with ones that have a much higher energy output (4-5 watts?) and put in some batteries with better energy density, and that thing could do some serious burning.
Was he using lithium batteries in his laser gauntlet?[/QUOTE]
Or hook up a 400 watt C02 laser through a fiber opic line to his glove.
[QUOTE=Strikebango;39465129]If you could build a tiny thorium reactor you would have a good power source for an iron man suit.[/QUOTE]
The human body produces energy didn't the Matrix teach you anything?
Did anyone else watch his related videos? How the HELL does he make all this shit?!
[video=youtube;z2oEP3RWppA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2oEP3RWppA[/video]
My favourite gauntlet weapon...thing.
You have to wonder if some random German guy "tinkering" can do this, what somebody with alot of knowledge and tons government funding could be working on right now.
[QUOTE=UsAirforce;39468927]You have to wonder if some random German guy "tinkering" can do this, what somebody with alot of knowledge and tons government funding could be working on right now.[/QUOTE]There is an entire agency of the U.S. government for that. Its called DARPA and it is my dream job.
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;39464449]i'm more interested it this in the related videos:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVgbtqsmx54[/media]
looks like something out of Dead Space[/QUOTE]
That thing, while cool looking, is complete weaksauce. It's only 500J, even considering it's multistage, coilguns rarely get an efficiency over a few percent. It's really no more powerful than a BB gun.
Looks pretty cool though.
The real fun stuff is in railguns. A home made railgun with a capacitor bank at a few kilojoules and a proper injection system will shoot supersonic with no trouble at all.
[QUOTE=chipset;39469688]That thing, while cool looking, is complete weaksauce. It's only 500J, even considering it's multistage, coilguns rarely get an efficiency over a few percent. It's really no more powerful than a BB gun.
Looks pretty cool though.
The real fun stuff is in railguns. A home made railgun with a capacitor bank at a few kilojoules and a proper injection system will shoot supersonic with no trouble at all.[/QUOTE]
I don't know man, for everything above 1 J you need a weapon license in Germany and also you have to accommodate that it's powered by AA batteries.