It’s pretty hard not to daydream about what your costume/outfit would look like if you were a superhero. Maybe even a super villain if your only childhood friend was an off brand Bill Nye rip off home chemistry set. BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY! So what you spent a lot of time in your room alone browsing subreddits on the subject of cats and doomsday device building? Horizons got to expand somehow. Who’s to say what is healthy behavior is inside a teenager’s bedroom? I don’t, and wouldn’t. Crusty socks and pilfered from the produce drawer vegetables aside, I don’t really want to assume what’s happening in a place like that. Ever.
It could be considered odd, in this day and age, where all things comic book and superhero are massive needle movers in the pop culture world, to not have wondered what your super hero/villain costume might look like. There are some all time greats…
(That just looks uncomfortable, right? You can almost hear this picture…yeesh)
Regardless of which super iconoclast you would find yourself drawn to, you never probably thought it would be a reality. You probably didn’t think you’d have the drive to crush 4 to 5 ab workouts a week to fit into whatever segmented piece of 3D printed plastic armor sewn onto some spandex that was presented to you when you began your crimefighting/megalomaniacal career. Look, I also want a good excuse to be able to shirk basic right/freedoms/laws that exist in society in order to snap both the tibia and fibula of ne’er do wells I encounter based off whatever my concept of morality is, but I’m not a borderline psychotic orphaned multi-billionaire who fetishizes a lot of different things at the same time in my crusade for justice. Who needs green briefs that make up the short shorts entry in a superhero fashion show to fight crime?
But as we all experience collectively, what was once fantasy…unreachable heights of science fiction fueled, bionic body part having, flying alien loving, abstractly panache weirdness eventually becomes reality. BEHOLD…I PRESENT TO YOU THE “REAL REAL” IRON MAN.
People are pretty jaded in a time and place like 2022, but this…this is COOL. Built and designed by Gravity Industries, whose website is siiiiicccc by the way, this is a self contained jet pack suit. I said that with a straight face. The company will be building many more suits like these, as people like Great North Air Ambulance Service, look to incorporate their stupendous usefulness into real-life situations…this one being paramedics equipped with jet packs like these to help out the injured who are in hard to reach places for traditional emergency services such as helicopters or automobiles. Nice. Check out more below…It’s fascinating stuff.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/uk-jetpack-emergency-paramedics
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-60863725
https://interestingengineering.com/flying-heroes-paramedics-to-start-using-jet-suits-this-summer
By the way…you can do this yourself if you have the money and are motivated…right here.
Cheers,
Max
