Is the H.E.V. suit possible?

[Colonel Kernel]

Hi
My question is: Is the H.E.V. Mark IV Protection System more than science fiction?
Well, I've allready googled the Net for that one, but didnt find much, because the other topics are either covering Mark V or just covering specific functions of the exoskeleton.
I just wanted to add a thread on HL2.net covering the whole suit (from gloves to Reactive Armor) and how the parts might work and be built in real life by available physics and engineering knowledge, how the suit might administer antidotes, adrenaline or morphine, what materials could and could not be used for It and how the hell(excuse me for my language) do you store more than 5 weapons in a tiny cylindrical box plus additional ammo AND, at last point, how do you monitor your munition level - some kind of device in the glove that detects the gunpowder and led bullets and makes a 3D image in the on-board computer's memory and then counts them(a little odd)?

And, finally, this thread will cover the additional equipment for the H.E.V. such as the Long Jump Module (L.J.M.) and the cylindrical ammo box.
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Thanks and please post!

 

[Barnz]

I don't see how you fit every weapon you get in a small metal box. It's a video game.

 

[Acepilotf14]

The H.E.V. suit uses a small singularity portal to hold weaponry in a vortex of nothingness outside our universe, much like a mini-black hole.

I just made this up, but its sounds reasonable.

 

[Colonel Kernel]

Yes, it is and will allways be a video game, but some other components might be possible - drug administer, HUD (if the wearer uses a helmet, of course), which is conected to the health and energy reserve sensors, munition level monitoring (probably) or reactive armor.
Anyway, thanks for the post.

 

[Colonel Kernel]

The H.E.V. suit uses a small singularity portal to hold weaponry in a vortex of nothingness outside our universe, much like a mini-black hole.

Cool, nice idea but thats way beyond our level of technology

Thnaks for posting.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Cool, nice idea but thats way beyond our level of technology

Thnaks for posting.

see: aperture science

 

[Colonel Kernel]

Ah yes, Aperture Science. The facility that was racing with Black Mesa for government funding.Their portal technology is a lot more complex and advanced than BM's Displacement Technology that uses a lot other machinaries such as Displacement Beacon, an enormous reactor core (Lambda Labs), a whole facility for the purpose of recharging the batteries used for charging the teleport, but I think this is the more realistc choise(from my point of view, of course).
No, I'm not saying that Apertute's technology isnt possible, but it goes a lot further in technology evolution(lets say 50-100 years).

Who knows, everything is possible...

 

[Adabiviak]

Possible: Yes.
Possible with today's material and engineering technology: Maybe at extreme expense.
Possible that someone might take a stab at making one: Not likely.

 

[FISHY CRACKERS]

You could make an H.E.V. robot... but then what's the point?

 

[ríomhaire]

You would have to develope a lot of technology on a rather small scale. Even the basic requirement, an artificial exoskeleton, is not a developed enough technology to be sufficiently compact and agile to house the rest of the suit and be comfortable to move around in.

We also need an automated medical diagnosis and treatment system that can administer drugs, disinfect wounds, halt bloodloss and even automatically detect blood-toxins and administer the correct anti-venom.

There's the totally random aux power which magically recharges using air and takes the same amount of energy to run a flashlight and to seperate oxygen from water. And the random little features like the thermometer and geiger counter and the HUD projection and the radio and the tracking devices.

You must also have computerized systems to monitor and manage all these features and not overheat, destroying the circuits and killing the user, so we need to make more room for a cooling system.

And this is without taking into account your weapon storage needs. And all this needs to be in a suit that is small enough to aford the user natural movement. It's possible, but dear god it would cost a fortune and years to come up with a prototype.

 

[freeman1993]

The Black hole idea seems possible because you can't carry the guns magnetized on your suit....wierd

 

[Colonel Kernel]

Yeah, i think the black hole idea would stay, in a meening that i want people to think off their own ideas. It wont be possible to ask scientists or professional engineers about this, cause I dont know any, so I'd like anyone who wants, just whistle..uh, I ment - write down what you think, on what ever you'd like, such as the geiger counter, HUD, weapon storage, ammo monitoring or what ever, related to the H.E.V.
About riomhaire's post - you have a point. It would take huge expenses and it would need a lot of time for creation. Also theres something weird about the ammo level monitoring system..
Anyways, thanks for stoping by.

 

[MJ12]

A free-moving combat suit that detects and fixes bone fractures. Sure.

 

[Maestro]

http://www.cracked.com/photoshop_85_if-video-games-were-realistic_p27

OP please read.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I'm guessing the base layer of the suit acts as temperature and biological protection, whilst the actual armor plates house some sort of electromagnetic field protection or equivalent; having enough power to slow down projectiles, absorb electricity and deflect radioactivity.

It is hard to say though whether the suit protects you much more effectivly against radioactive particles (the sludge in HL1 would saturate the suit if you jump into the pool) or radioactive rays (The Dark Matter core in Ep1 presumably produced energetic rays)

 

[kupocake]

There's more in the Wikipedia article on 'Powered Exoskeleton' than I thought there would be. Mostly about robotic application to lifting heavy weights. Nothing like the streamlined robotic HEV suit, but interesting nonetheless.