The protection suit
Again one of my ideas, that came to me when I thought about working or just living under hard conditions.
This suit in particular is NOT meant for military conditions.Imagine this:
You live in one of the big cities in the world.
Your job is to clean windows of skyscrapers, but you always have to wear a mask against the polution.
Of course it's not one of those comfortable models and it is in your way while working.
So you don't wear it always and that gave you a lung condition...
Or this one:
Working on an oil rig.
The mighty sea is not mercyfull with the whole construction.
Salty water, always wet and cold and swaying.
You might think, that future bullshit. It would take decades until such a suit.
Do you know the Masterchief from the Halo series?
Thats roughly how I image the suit.
It has to have a helmet for ether head-protection and/or air filtering.
The chest and back piece hold the batteries, because it will probably be a little heavy
so you'll need a little mechanical muscle support and the other systems also need some energy.
These pieces need to be customized to the conditions, but movability is mostly very important.
The legs probaly need to be a bit stiffer, because the must support the body and suit weight.
In the case of the oil rig there would be special joints to counter the rigs swaying.
One more scenario would be working in very cold conditions like repairing pipelines in alaska.
The whole suit could be sealed and have internal heating and body condition sensors.
Of course it'd need a lot of energy with limited working time, but in this case,
the suit could compute that time frame and show it in a heads-up display.
Nobody would need those big layered clothes anymore. A special neoprene suit
beneath the protection suit would do the job.
I estimate the development time with the right budget and people about 2 years for the first prototype.
5 years until the first suit could be bought!
2016-01-24