In February of this year IBM issued a patent for exo-armor that would allow you to dodge bullets. Unfortunately they’ve since pulled the patent. I still think that this is remarkable.
Their patent was a combination of high accuracy sensors (to detect high velocity projectiles in flight, and calculate their exact trajectories) and exo-suit technology (if you happened to be in the path of said projectile, the exo-suit would shove you out of the way faster than you could react). Their logic was that sniper bullets come from far enough away to give the sensors and suit enough time to move your butt to safety. Sound like Neo to you?
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I think the only limits to this would be processing speed, which wouldn’t be a limit for long. There are so many immediate ways I could see to enhance this as well. Terahertz wave (and other) detectors could be used to track ALL firearms in an area, and a computer algorithm could be used to track all of their potential trajectories.
The sensors could then be used to tell if the guns were in people’s hands or not, and behavioral algorithms (which AFAIK have already been developed) could be used to tell if the person holding the gun was acting aggressively.
Couple that with the ability to read the movement of a trigger finger, and you could have the person dodging a split second before the gun is actually fired; starting to dodge after the trigger was pulled, but BEFORE the hammer came down. This would greatly shorten the range, allowing you to dodge even point blank in ideal conditions.
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With advanced enough algorithms, you could even have this thing letting you dodge attacks in hand to hand combat and make it look effortless. Jackie Chan’s suit from The Tuxedo comes to mind.
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Thanks to TechFragments.com for the original heads up.
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