It’s been awhile since I posted something this unrelated to programming, gadgets, or my life, but I’m rather amused by the latest news about Canadian mad scientist Troy Hurtubise of Project Grizzly fame. This is the guy who tested his grizzly-proof suit by jumping in front of a 5-ton pickup truck going 30 miles an hour and claims to have invented the Angel Light in a dream, allowing him to see through walls, kill goldfish and destroy electronics … and the “God Light” which he thinks can cure cancer...
Anyway. His latest publicity stunt is a trip to stand around looking like Robocop in downtown Toronto, in hopes of getting a military contract to produce Starship Trooper-like suits for the Canadian military. While this seems like the perfect occasion for a series of jokes about the Canadian Armed Forces, what I really want to know is: What happened? Supposedly he was going to do this on Saturday, and yet the only mention of it (other than the original Hamilton Spectator news) is on the usual silly news sites which are just reporting on the Hamilton story.
Well, since there’s no further news, feel free to watch these old Discovery Planet videos: Fire Jeep, and Fighting Fire with Fact, and read about how Berkeley’s got the perfect partner to this suit working in their robotic exoskeleton.
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