TROY Hurtubise:

''If you're going to get down with grizzlies, you've got to have gear you can
count on,'' says Hurtubise, a buckskin-clad inventor of the old school - the
school whose motto might be ''perseverance, improvisation, duct tape.'' He
used nearly 7,000 feet of the stuff on the last prototype suit.
According to an article in New Scientist, a British publication, the contrivance
is made mostly of Boralyn E5 - a lightweight metal composite produced by
California's Alyn Corp. - with a ''honeycomb'' shock-absorbing system packed
between the endoskeleton and exoskeleton. Hardly any duct tape.
''This suit makes Robocop look like the Tin Man in `The Wizard of Oz,'''
Hurtubise says. ''With the G-Man, you can tap dance in a minefield. You can
take a dynamite blast. You can take AK-47 rounds all day. You can walk
through 4,000-degree Fahrenheit heat.
Name: Ursus Mark IV
Materials:
*Fireproof Rubber Exterior (from Minnesota)
*Titanium Rubber Plates (from Hamilton, Ontario)
*Suit joints made of chain mail (from France)
*Tek Plastic Inner Shell (from Japan)
*Inner layer of air bags
*Duct tape
Height: 2.18m (7'2"), with head-top camera attachment.
Weight: 66.68kg (147lb)
Headpiece: Two-chamber headpiece. Inner helmet: specially modified Shoei
motorcycle helmet. Outer chamber: Aluminium/titanium alloy shell.
Dimensions: approx. 60cm (2') deep; 45cm (1'6") wide.
Cooling System: Battery-powered twin-fan ventilation system draws cool air
into helmet and vents warm air.
Radio System: Voice-activated two-way radio.
Viewing System: Helmet-mounted miniature camera with wide-angle view
screen.
Black Box: Voice-activated recording device located on the rear-right side of
head piece to record bear sounds or, in the event of a catastrophic failure of
the Ursus Mark VI, last words.
Defensive System: Trigger-finger-activated "blaster can" on right arm,
capable of spraying a 38cm (15") diameter cone of bear-repellant for a
distance of 4.6m (15'), for a duration of 7 seconds.
Bite Bar: Pressure-sensitive strip located on right arm, to measure the biting
power of a grizzly.
TESTING ON SUIT
*Truck: 18 collisions with a three-ton truck traveling at 50kmh (30mph).
*Rifle: Shot at with a 12-gauge shotgun using "Sabot" slugs.
*Arrows: Amour-piercing arrows, fired from 45kg (100lb) bow.
*Tree Trunk: Two collisions with a 136kg (300lb) tree from a height of 9m
(30').
*Bikers: Assault by three bikers - the largest, 2.05m (6'9") tall, weighing 175

kg (385lb). Biker armaments: splitting axe, planks, and baseball bat.

*Escarpment: Jumped off cliff, falling more than 15.25, (150').
The Ursus Mark IV has some minor drawbacks, which will be remedied before
Troy considers the design to be optimal. Eventually it will be possible to take
more than five steps before falling over if the ground is not perfectly level.
Future versions of the suit will be lighter and more flexible.
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