The Iron Man movies see Downey Jr play Tony Stark, a billionaire entrepreneur who has developed a suit of armour that grants him superpowers.
Dainese, an Italian company that makes protective sports clothing, has developed a suit that uses speed sensors to predict a crash and then deploy a neck and shoulder air bag.
And now it turns out that Anton Bogdanovych from the University of Technology, Sydney has developed a suit that lets you control a robot in real-time using full body motion capture.
Irony-rich researchers at the University of Tsukuba have launched a hi-tech spin-off, Cyberdyne Inc, which is developing a robot suit called Hybrid Assistive Limb – or Hal for short.
I work for the outdoor clothing company Rohan and for the past two years I've been developing a travel suit that has silver woven into the lining which makes it whiff free.
He worked on developing a new suit that would counter this in the basement of his family's home on Scenic Avenue in Berkeley, California, and researched the new wetsuit at a conference in Coronado, California, in December 1951.
"Labour is developing a programme suited to these post-Crash times when spending or borrowing solutions are neither available nor adequate to deal with the challenges ahead".
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert at the Washington-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said developing a reactor suited for higher-grade nuclear vessel fuel would take at least a decade.
In light of increasing internationalization of courses, such findings might also be useful in developing a curriculum suited to the individual needs of particular groups.
