Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor

The Hamilton Spectator is reporting that inventor Troy Hurtubise, creator of the "bear-protection suit" made famous by taking a hit from a moving vehicle, has slimmed down his design in hopes of landing a lucrative government contract. From the article: "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.'"

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Video of Troy's Suits

[DeadSea]

If you are not familiar with Troy, this video is a great introduction. It shows him in his first two suits.

• Beaten with baseball bats
• Slammed by a large log
• Pushed off a cliff
• Hit by a truck
• Beaten by a gang

Google Video has a different video

While it would rock if this were the real thing...

[JayBlalock]

This guy is kind of a known crackpot. Do a search on his name plus "Angel Light" or "God Light" if you don't believe me. He claims to have a miracle space ray that (alternately) provides Superman-style selectable X-Ray vision (that is to say, you only see a deeply as you want) OR else cures cancer in lab rats. Or both. Yet when pushed to demonstrate his miracle X-Ray gizmo, he suddenly claimed it was too dangerous to people and dismantled it.

Just as a start, here's his Wikipedia entry.

So until his claims are proven, he's in the group of people whose claims should all be taken with a grain of salt.