Man builds working Halo suit and hopes to market to MIlitary
Inspired by the Halo video game, Troy Hurtubise created a full exoskeloten body suit designed to deflect bullets, explosives, knives, and clubs. That’s right, a full working Halo suit designed and created from the ground up [via].
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.”
Hurtubise hopes to market the suit to the military for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do you think he has a chance of making an impression on the DoD?
