Technology stepped forward.
Many are addicted to movies and comics about superheroes and dream at least something to be like them. It turns out that researchers are developing real technologies that can give extraordinary abilities to the average person.
1. Flying exosuit (superhero: Iron man)
British oil trader turned himself in this Tony stark, creating an exoskeleton suit with a jet engine that allows him to fly.
Richard Browning created the exosuit, by combining three sets of miniature jet engines and attach them to his hands and back. It controls the speed and direction of flight, changing the direction of thrust of the engine, using only upper body. Another steering mechanism.
The exosuit does not have some of the typical features Iron man, such as superhuman strength and repulsor rays, but it allows the Browning to fly for 10 minutes. During the first experiments the Browning could fly at 2 meters above the ground and can reach speeds of about 8 km/h, but he believes that future prototypes will be able to fly at speeds up to 100 km/h at an altitude of 100 metres.
It is worth noting that Iron man is not cheap. The prototype cost the Browning is about $ 250,000.
2. Self healing (superhero: Wolverine)
Amazing ability of self-healing mutant Wolverine may seem impossible for the average person, but the experimental research unit of the us army is developing tiny implants that can really help people be healed.
Program of electrical installations or ElecRX aims to develop tiny implants that will continually monitor the physical condition of the person and to provide electrical stimulation to any body that need it. The device is so tiny that they can be implemented directly on the nerve endings with a needle – in contrast to the more modern invasive technologies. This makes the treatment more targeted.
Implants can be used for the treatment of painful chronic inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome of the organism or inflammatory bowel disease. Alas, they will not give wonderful longevity Wolverines.
3. Quick run (superhero: the Flash)
If the idea of owning personal jetpacks doesn’t seem quite “cool”, is to imagine a container that will help to move almost as quickly as Flash.
This jetpack on batteries, which is worn like a backpack, help the subject to run a mile 20 seconds faster than he did usually.
This technology was originally developed under the DARPA program, aimed to find ways to get the soldiers to move faster on the battlefield, and now researchers are trying to help athletes improve their results.
4. Invisibility (superhero: the Invisible woman)
The invisibility cloaks will not be able to allow a person to hide anything mental force, like Invisible woman, but with their help it will be possible to achieve almost complete disappearance of objects.
During older attempts of creation of invisibility cloaks, scientists tried to achieve the disappearance of objects by the curvature of light around them, but new technology using other approaches. One of them uses a new kind of technology called a “metascreen” that “cancel out” the light waves Bouncing off a hidden object (so far it only works with microwaves, not visible light). Another technology reflects light from the object as if it is a flat mirror, making a hidden object is invisible.
Still managed to hide only very small objects, but scientists continue to work on both projects.
5. X-ray vision (superhero: Superman)
X-ray vision of Superman allowed him to see through walls (unless, of course, they were not made of lead), and now, thanks to the work of scientists at mit people, too, can do similar.
RF system Capture MIT uses shortwave radio signals to track movement behind walls, and in the course of the experiments, the scientists were able to identify 15 people through walls with accuracy of up to 90 percent, tracking their slightest movement.
Initially, this technology will likely find application in healthcare, because the researchers hope to create a system that can monitor the movement of elderly people, preventing their fall.
6. Superproject (superhero: the Hulk)
Those who wanted to feel what it’s like to be invincible Hulk, come to the aid of new high-tech suit of armor.
According to the U.S. army, the suit Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or “TALOS” “can provide superhuman strength and unprecedented ballistic protection.” Robotic suit could also help people to overcome stress, making them super-strong.
In addition to improving the strength of the suit can make its owner thanks to a bulletproof exoskeleton made of magnetorheological fluids that can change its state from liquid to solid.
7. Teleportation (superhero: Night of the serpent)
Welcome to the strange world of quantum teleportation. Although the researchers are not yet able to teleport matter through space, they’ve mastered the “magic” of quantum entanglement (the process by which subatomic particles are linked and can communicate instantly, even when separated by great distances, i.e. they can transmit information from one place to another). Until now, scientists were able to teleport particles at a distance of about 145 kilometers.
Someday scientists hope to create a quantum Internet, which can allow you to install a much more secure communication channels.
8. Walk through walls (superhero: spider-Man)
Inspired by the sticky feet of geckos, scientists at the Pentagon have developed portable pads on hands and feet that allow people to climb walls like spider-Man.
At the same time, researchers from Stanford University have created a similar device for climbing, is also using technology based on how a Gecko moves. The Stanford device consists of two plates, covered in tiny rubber hairs.
9. Telekinesis (superhero: Jean grey)
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have created a brain computer interface that can allow users to move objects with the power of his mind, just as it makes the mutant Jean grey.
The system allows users to control the distance the quadcopter by… thoughts.
Users wear a cap with attached electrodes that collect the electrical signals of the brain and transmit them to a computer, then converts them in motion.
10. Underwater breathing (superhero: Aquaman)
The creators of Triton claimed that their can artificial gills allow humans to breathe under water for 45 minutes at depths up to 4.5 metres. And all this without cumbersome equipment required for scuba diving. But scientists were skeptical. The device, according to them, will not be able to function if the swimmers will not travel with superhuman speed or it will not be equipped with a powerful (and, respectively, and bulky) pump that will push water through the “gills”.
The campaign on Indiegogo raised more than $ 800,000 to bring the product to market, but the company returned the money to backers in 2016. In the end, a crowdfunding campaign was later restarted. On assurances of developers, in December 2016 at the market was supposed to be a finished product at a price of $ 399. But it never happened.
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