From bears to bullets: Inventor hopes to sell armour suit to the military

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."

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The whole suit -- which draws design inspiration from Star Wars, RoboCop, Batman and video games -- is made from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam.

Its many features include compartments for emergency morphine and salt, a knife and emergency light. Built into the forearms are a small recording device, a pepper-spray gun and a detachable transponder that can be swallowed in case of trouble.

Dangling between the legs, that would be a clock.

This man has created some amazing stuff, check it out.

ahaha that looks sweet

Cool, a real life mad scientist/engineer.

OMG that is cool!

I could so wear that to rob a bank

Stay out of... trouble.

Amazing and uber cool.

How do you piss in that thing?

That is freakin awesome!!
I still wanna see someone wearing it take a bullet tho

yer, i would have liked to see him get shot some

Its the master chief woo

That's some big arse shoes.

the cock clock is quite a nice touch if you will

needs a jet pack, rollerskates and painted flames on the sides

I wanna see the inside of the helmet.

I read that he estimates the cost of each suit wuld be $2k if mass produced, cheap enough for everyone to have one. I reckon just the site of someone coming at you in that suit would make you s*** yourself anyway.

Still I would like to see how it would handlea full on ballistic test, sure the material might stop and elephant gun but the poor prick inside the suit might not be able to function for a long time after a hit like that. :P


another thing I noticed is while he is talking to the reporter its obvious one of the more vital parts of his anatomy (namely his neck) is totally unprotected. The suit will do zip for you if you cop and hit in the neck. I don't think too many people will take him seriously.

last edited by Psycho! at 01:10:57 18/Jan/07

ROFL man that video is funny as.

i hope it is air-conditioned

video was crap... let see someone shoot at it, then ill be impressed.

i hope it is air-conditioned

couldnt be bothered to watch the vid eh?

Reminds me of Command and Conquer.

reminds me of the tron guy

This guy ???
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Yeh they do look alike !!!



last edited by Snakeman at 13:41:13 19/Jan/07

Read the slashdot comments on this article, apparently the guy is a bit of a nut case

hahah good one snakeman

^yeh he sounded like it.

You'd have to be able to put it on and off with relative ease wouldn't you? I like the way he says to design it he watched Star Wars then Halo, THEN he looked at what the military need.

Someone link the vid of him getting hit by the car...

Read the slashdot comments on this article, apparently the guy is a bit of a nut case

you reckon?

Yeah he is kinda nuts, maybe that's what helped him... I bet if he didn't fantasise about being a Storm Trooper all day, he wouldn't have bothered to put time into this kinda s***.

No-one who is a bit nuts has ever invented anything of use.

Einstein was a bit nuts.

No-one who is a bit nuts has ever invented anything of use.

He's right. all the great inventors were more than a bit nuts...

halo...