IBM's bullet-dodging bionic armor patent, wow

Juniper Foo | Feb 17, 2009

IBM wants you to dodge bullets like Neo.

About the only bullet dodging we know of is the kind some people engage in to get out of sticky office situations. Now, thanks to a computer company, it's gone and filed a patent (US 7484451) for a bionic body armor that can dodge the real stuff. And it does all this in a most interesting manner--by delivering a shock to the wearer's appropriate muscles to cause a superfast reflexive move away from the bullet's trajectory. Can technology ever calculate faster than a speeding bullet? Who cares? Imagine mere mortals like us able to do a Neo a la Matrix, with the bionic body armor dictating our moves. Just in case, we'd recommend slapping on the new Knight Rider's special bullet-resistant coating as backup. Even better if this can dodge paintballs. Though there'll be no dodging the expected sticker shock if this bionic armor ever rolls off the assembly line.

IBM's bionic body armor patent. (Photo credit: IBM)

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namvijay says...
What if you dodge into the path of bullet. You might end up positioning yourself better to get shot. Haha.
They need to make better use of money than this.

Feb 19, 2009 18:04