Check Out This Life-Sized Avatar Powersuit!

Check Out This Life-Sized Avatar Powersuit!

From a Panasonic suit event featuring 3D televisions, Panasonic put the mammoth suit on display.

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By jman1977 - Sep 04, 2009 12:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: www.worstpreviews.com

A couple of weeks ago Panasonic signed James Cameron to give their engineers ideas on how to improve their 3-D TV's they plan on releasing some time ever. Panasonic is also planning to drive around vans with large 3-D TV's inside of them showing James Cameron's "Avatar.

I know, exciting right.

During Panasonic's IFA press event, when people enter the booth they are greeted by a life size "Avatar" Powersuit. The powersuit is full armed and pretty damn big judging from the pic below.

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CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 9/4/2009, 12:15 PM
they should have used the suits from gi joe, then this would be successful
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/4/2009, 12:16 PM
Oh my, that looks pretty cool!

Hey it reminds me of the ALIENS one, very cool!!!
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 9/4/2009, 12:20 PM
Looks cool I guess, but still iffy about the movie in general...
Shaman
Shaman - 9/4/2009, 12:22 PM
DUDES!!!! KICK ASS NEW LOGO CBM!!! :))
CRITIC17
CRITIC17 - 9/4/2009, 12:26 PM
That looks AWESOME!!!!!
CRITIC17
CRITIC17 - 9/4/2009, 12:28 PM
I can only see the very edge of the logo...
Shaman
Shaman - 9/4/2009, 12:31 PM
Alright, this calls for a remake of Robojox!!!
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 9/4/2009, 12:35 PM
Hopefully it's half as awesome as the robo-suit in District 9...hopefully.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 9/4/2009, 12:48 PM
@ shaman

ROBOT JOX!!!!!!!!! i loved that movie when i was little, lol
luecypher
luecypher - 9/4/2009, 1:06 PM
Robot Jox nice!!! Reminds me of the Juggernaut suit in the first MechWarrior.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 9/4/2009, 1:22 PM
BEST ROBOT SUIT WAS IN MATRIX
Pym
Pym - 9/4/2009, 1:27 PM
Totally the same suit as District 9, or the harvester in terminator, or from aliens, or exosquad. Nothing new and I bet it makes gross electronic sounds too. This is all hype to me. Nothing original.
Shaman
Shaman - 9/4/2009, 1:36 PM
I always wanted to see RoboJox as a kid. Only got to see the trailer which kicked mega ass!!!
RaKita
RaKita - 9/4/2009, 1:51 PM
The suits in GI Joe were a total ripoff from the game, Crysis. Now, if they'd only make a Mechwarrior movie....
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 9/4/2009, 1:51 PM
It's funny how some morons I know still think that this is the last airbender
48and2
48and2 - 9/4/2009, 1:52 PM
Must admit I was a Robojox fan as a kid also.

Actually I thought the District 9 suit was the best one I've seen up to now with its crazy prawn face - thought that was a very cool visual example of how a civilization's technology will reflect its culture.

This gives me higher hopes for the movie, but I don't think the story or concept's going to be anything super original as touted. More likely just the film style will be innovative. I mean, if I see that right, this mech has bullets and missiles, at least the District 9 one had awesome space weapons - how far in the future is this going to be set? Do we know?
CRITIC17
CRITIC17 - 9/4/2009, 1:53 PM
@gunsmith: Yeah it was!!! Those suits were so cool man!!!
shibazz
shibazz - 9/4/2009, 2:00 PM
Oh hell yes! District nines suit was the tits! but i am sure this is a little more worker class based and i really like the ammount of effort the studios are putting in. Love it!
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 9/4/2009, 2:05 PM
The D9 suit was off the charts awesome. The shots inside it with Wikus, and the weapons, and the amount of destruction it caused were amazing.
Evil1991
Evil1991 - 9/4/2009, 2:56 PM
Isn't that the suit from the 3rd matrix?
CRITIC17
CRITIC17 - 9/4/2009, 5:53 PM
Sequel to Watchmen? Check FanFic!!!
48and2
48and2 - 9/4/2009, 9:34 PM
Man I hated Wikus up until that scene, such a sniveling little prick haha - yeah the control panels in that thing were wicked.

@Skyhook I'm not so much of a conspiracy theorist, but I like to keep a healthy open mind. Wouldn't doubt for a second that prototypes already exist. And unfortunately the technology will be of primarily military interest.

In the GN Watchmen, NightOwl II has a "hydrolic" suit that he talks about almost killing himself when he tried it out. Then you have TDK opening with Batman bending the gun barrel with his hydrolics. That's kind half the reason Iron Man is so timely - the technology is almost here.

To my understanding, the only serious engineering challenge would be to have the hydrolics sensitive and controlled enough not to break the users body (more to it than that, but you get the jist) - not a major challenge at this point. So you'd just build a hydrolic skeleton and surround it with whatever shell and electronics (and weapons) you desire. If Howard Hughes could steer the spruce goose with hydrolics what 60? years ago, believe me this is perfectly feasible at this point. Cost a few billion for r&d, and a few more for production probably, plenty of room for that in the black budget. Most of us will probably see them in our lifetimes.

You guys realize we're ten years AT MOST away from a fully functioning invisibility cloak.

48and2
48and2 - 9/5/2009, 8:54 PM
If any of you guys aren't aware of this, prepare to have your minds blown (it's a pic of a rough, but working cloak on a guy in broad daylight, and it's real):

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animation/assets/invisibility_cloak.jpg

It's based on "left handed metamaterials". They are a class of materials that have the ability to reverse the waveform of light. Also it's been discovered how to make an anti-invisibility cloak, which would be necessary if you're inside of something that's cloaked, in order to secretly see what's around you and have the cloak be effective at all - that's almost more important than the cloak itself.

This Wikipedia article's a hell of a long boring read, but it fills you in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial

@wards I hadn't heard about the fiber optic tanks - I don't follow military technology so closely - sounds crazy, and I'll check them out. There are multiple ways to do it, but as I said the cloaking technology I'm talking about is based on metamaterials - all kinds of previously unimaginable things will come from this stuff. I'm also aware of the usual vast time lapse and process from "the lab" to practical application, but this stuff is produced at like microprocessor scale with very common substances like silicon and gold. At the rate technology is accelerating, it won't be long. Plus, militarily, this is right up there with the Manhattan Project, unfortunately - could have some terrifying uses and consequences.

Here're some more articles if you're interested, or just Google "invisibility cloak".

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305121733.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080903073016.htm

How is this related to Comicbookmovies, yes I'm asking myself that, but it has particular relevance towards Trek, GI Joe (unfortunately), maybe even Batman, and any science fiction book/movie. Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and most of the exceptional writers out there seem to pay pretty close attention to this shit.
HarrisonBergeron
HarrisonBergeron - 9/5/2009, 9:55 PM
I believe we have most of the technology to build suits like this, ASIMO and other robots like it have the ability to walk and balance and etc, and the research being done in prosthesis is making giant leaps as far as controls that would be useful, but just like shown in Iron Man, the thing that hampers viability is the power source. We don't have any means of supplying the power necessary to make them useful.

It would be cool to see someone make a big corded one. I know it would have a practical application as far as loading heavy things that would otherwise require specialized tools. I think I have seen a smaller suit that was corded for this purpose, but I can't remember where.
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 9/6/2009, 6:50 PM
looks like the district 9 thing.
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