Land Warrior - Space Warrior?
The United States Army has been developing a high-tech system for facilitating communications between infantry men and improving their over-all effectiveness. The system includes GPS tracking technology, wearable computers, new input devices (that can be mounted on a weapon), digital optics, and laser range finding devices. While not necessarily designed for space, there are tremendous opportunities for combing some of these existing technologies to improve everyone’s over-all space experience. Many of these technologies could be used for non-military purposes.
This article got me thinking
This article got me thinking about the exoskeletons.
Wiki-pedia has an article about them outlining the general concept.
I know that I saw something a few months ago about new fibers that make the concept much more feasible in the not-to-distant future. The wikipedia article makes it appear as though myomer fibers are what I had in mind.
Of course, perhaps this halo inspired suit is also what I have in mind. The halo suit lacks the ability to improve the strength and speed of the wearer, however.