io9: batsuit

Israeli Students Design "Batsuit" That Lets You Fly out of Airplanes

Annalee Newitz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:09:31 PDT

In Batman and countless other caped superhero movies, there's always a moment when our hero jumps from a plane or high building and uses the cape on his suit to fly safely to earth. Now a group of space engineering students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology say they've got a working model of a real-life Batsuit. The main problem isn't flying, though. It's reducing the pain.

Apparently the biggest problem the students faced when testing versions of the suit was that people wearing it suffered excruciating pain from the load. According to the Jerusalem Post:

Knowing that such an "extreme sport" would require top physical fitness, [the students] sent friends who were in good condition to a gym to get an idea of their physical limitations. "We discovered that some of the loads the wearer could experience were great enough to turn gliding from fun into torture," [suit developer Yair] Segev said. "After defining the physical limitations of the flier, we built a simple aerodynamic model of a human in a light, winged suit."

I guess smashing your face directly into the wind isn't as fun as Christian Bale makes it look?

Technion Students Design Batman Suit [via Jerusalem Post]

The Dark Knight Is An Overdressed Milk-Drinker

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:40:00 PDT

Christian Bale gives you a closer look at the new over-accessorized batsuit while demonstrating his love of calcium. This new Bat "Got Milk" ad makes me nervous on many different levels. First, it's way more apparent how "busy" the bat-suit is. Seriously, that's a lot of look. Also that armor is huge — how can he fight crime in that thing, and what was wrong with the Batman Begins suit? Finally why is Batman in bed with the dairy industry anyway? Click through for a closer at Batman's milk 'stache.

Christian Bale Looks Bat-rophied

charliejane — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:30:17 PST

Bruce Wayne looks sort of grumpy, like the Joker disturbed his naptime, in this new promo still from Batman: The Dark Knight. He's also not nearly as buff as he was in Batman Begins, while the Batsuit has more fake plastic muscles than before. Also released today: a new poster for The Dark Knight that tastefully avoids showing Heath Ledger looking spooky. Click through for images.

[ComingSoon]

New Batsuit Has Bra Cups Instead Of Nipples

charliejane — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:30:00 PST

Batman's chest will have special bat-cups which, ummm, lift and separate his pecs. At least he's not sporting the much-criticized nipples from 1997's Batman and Robin. New Batsuit images from The Dark Knight from Uruloki, via IESB.