Inventor wants to sell his Anti-Grizzly suit to the military
From bears to bullets -Inventor hopes to sell armour suit to the military
There's a fantatstic documentary about this guy and his quest to build the perfect anti-grizzly suit. It's called "Project Grizzly." Rent it. It will amaze and delight.
The grizzly man is back, and this time he's ready to take on bullets and bombs.
Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-born inventor who became famous for his bulky bear-protection suit by standing in front of a moving vehicle to prove it worked, has now created a much slimmer suit that he hopes will soon be protecting Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
He has spent two years and $15,000 in the lab out back of his house in North Bay, designing and building a practical, lightweight and affordable shell to stave off bullets, explosives, knives and clubs. He calls it the Trojan and describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour."
