I always wondered as an interested gamer when started to play Crysis (the first one) on PC and then the last two on my PS3 if Nanosuit technology was vaguely based on something real.
Checked on the net and got various results about some author that’s very devoted to research this things since MGS. Shocking fact the ones behind Crysis games have done serious research before present to us this Nanosuit tech.
Here is an extensive and in-depth details of each function that the suit provides to the user and if exists or not and could be applied on a human being (military grade) some near future.
To quote:
“Nanotechnology offers unprecedented possibilities for progress—defeating poverty, starvation, and disease, opening up outer space, and expanding human capacities. But it also brings unprecedented risks—the specter of devastating wars fought with far more powerful weapons of mass destruction.” – Chris Phoenix, Director of Research, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.
When you step into one of the games in the Crysis series, you step into something called a “Nanosuit.” It makes you a stronger, better soldier.The Nanosuit is supposedly made up of a material called CryFibril, also referred in the game as Nanoweave or Nanofiber. CryFibril is the single most important component of the suit, as it is the medium for the various Nanosuit functions. In Crysis 2, the CryFibril got a major overhaul, making the Nanosuit lighter, stronger and more energy efficient.
Someone at Crytek must have been doing their homework because CryFibril looks suspiciously like a recent real-world breakthrough in nanomaterial technology.Rise of the digital battlefield—war v2.0
Medical and military scientists alike claim that nanotechnology will transform the future as we know it. With the global proliferation of nanoscale technologies, from the research bench to the consumer market, it is both inevitable and fast-approaching. The question remains though, what will the future landscape look like? The answer really depends on who you ask.My previous article about nanotechnology in video games—specifically, the Metal Gear series—took a glimpse at how nanotechnology could completely revolutionize the future of warfare. Using some not-so-far-fetched science, soldiers and machines can be integrated into a massive command-and-control network with the help of computers, epidermal electronic sensors and wireless communication systems. The central combat environment would provide detailed battlefield information and control to commanders in real time, in what Colin Milburn (nano culture researcher), dubbed the “Digital Battlefield“. Or maybe more appropriately: War—the video game.
“Taking inspiration from the Future Warrior 2020 program, we developed the Nano Fibre Suit [a.k.a Nanosuit) that can enhance strength, speed and armour levels. The player can max the speed and dash across an open field, change to the strength setting and silently punch out a sentry." - Bernd Diemer, Senior Game Designer, Crytek 2006
Does the suit make the man, or does the man make the suit?:
Crysis 3 is the newest installment in the Crysis series. For the unfamiliar, Crysis 3 is set in the near future (2047ish) and follows the adventures of
AlcatrazProphet, a soldier equipped with a nanotechnology-inspired battle suit, aptly named the Nanosuit. Prophet must protect the human race from complete extension from the Charybdis, a race of technologically-advanced aliens that are dead-set on our destruction. The Nanosuit comes fully-fitted with three primary combat modes: Armour, Power and Stealth. These modes allow Prophet to battle the Charybdis with superhuman abilities. Let's take a peek behind the curtain and delve into the science of the CryNet Nanosuit.
Coincidence? I think not—CryFibril on the left and nanoscale carbon (graphene) on the right
CryFibril—fabric of the future or is it already here?:
Graphene (pictured above) is a one-atom thick sheet of carbon arranged in a repeating hexane pattern that has some really amazing mechanical properties. It might not look like much, but the discovery of graphene in 2004 was a big deal. In fact, the researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize just 6 years later, which is almost unheard of. So what's so special about this graphene stuff anyways?
Well in short, graphene is one the strongest materials ever manufactured. It has a breaking strength 100 times greater than steel and weighs thousands of times less (10,194 times less to be exact). Graphene can be rolled up into tubes, called carbon nanotubes, which are even stronger than graphene sheets. Carbon nanotubes can then be spun together and woven into fibers which are much more flexible and useful as engineering materials, making them the ideal fabric for the Nanosuit. If you can believe it, carbon nanotubes are even harder than diamond. So it comes as no surprise that research is already underway towards developing carbon nanotube composite body armour for police and military applications as well as building an elevator to space, just to name a few ideas.
Graphene can be rolled up into a tube just like a sheet of paper and spun into super strong carbon nanofibers, the perfect material for an armoured Nanosuit.
"From shape-shifting armour to fabric that can turn away microbes, as well as bullets to new power sources, the defense industries are launching major initiatives and planning for Nanotechnology. The basic research in Nanotechnology conducted at these centers will provide the foundation upon which real world applications can be built." - Kevin G. Coleman, Senior Fellow, Technolytics Institute
Maximum Armour:
In a pinch, Prophet can divert power to the CryFibril Nano suit armour to temporarily increase protection from incoming high-speed objects, blunt trauma and energy blasts. This process, called Armour Mode, supposedly tightens up the suit's outer weave, which decreases the suit's power upon impact, rather than valuable health.
Interestingly, there is a real world nanomaterial counterpart currently under development calledD30 gel. This protective nanogel is a dilatant non-Newtonian fluid, which is a very fancy way of saying it is flexible when moving slowly, but rigidifies upon impact, before quickly returning to its flexible state again. These types of materials behave very strangely. Check it out on YouTube,you won't regret it. Studies have down that D30 gel can absorb much of the energy from a shock or impact, greatly reducing the damage to the wearer. It is already in use in protective sports equipment and is coming soon to a battlefield near you.
Shock-absorbing nanogel (D30), real life Maximum Armour.
Maximum Power:
When Prophet needs to quickly sprint across the battlefield, leap to cover on top of a Pinger or toss a wrecked car at a pesky group of Ceph, Power Mode is the way to go. Power Mode uses up Nanosuit energy for as long as it is active and grants the player superhuman strength.
How can we rationalize this with some real world science? Well, we could talk about a powered exoskeleton like the Raytheon XOS. This would fit the bill in terms of Power Mode functionallybut it is hardly a nanoscale technology. No, we need to go smaller, much smaller.
An international team of researchers lead by Ray Baughman at the University of Texas have come up with a nano-sized alternative. They have developed an artificial nano fiber muscle. These nano fibers are made up of ropes of carbon nanotubes which are twisted together into thicker yarns and set into paraffin wax.
The bundles of nano fibers can contract rapidly when exposed to heat or electricity, up to 200 times stronger than human muscle. The manufacturing process will have to be improved to weave larger fabrics, like our trusty Nanosuit, but the basic premise checks out.
Ropes of carbon nanotubes can be spun into thicker yarns forming high strength artificial muscles.
"Military camouflage outfits that blend with a variety of environments without needing an outside power source—blue, say, when at sea, and then brown in a desert environment—is where this work could eventually lead." - George Bachand, Team Leader, Sandia National Laboratories
Cloaking:
Is there an annoying Ceph patrol up ahead guarding the objective? Need to sneak by a sentry and avoid being detected? No problem. Disappear from sight with Stealth Mode. This Nanosuit ability also drains power but makes the wearer invisible. The suit's surface can dynamically scan the surrounding area and modify its skin colour to match in real time. This is the principle behind active camouflage. Animals like the octopus, chameleon and sea horse have already figured it out. Humans, on the other hand, are still working on it.
One of the first experimental active camouflage prototypes came out of the lab of Susumu Tachifrom University of Tokyo in 2003. They developed a camouflage system in which a video camera captures the background behind an object and displays it on a cloth in front using an external projector. It didn't really work very well, but it inspired others to try and make their own cloaking machines. There are several new approaches currently under development using metamaterials which can actually bend light around an object. This technology only works for extremely small objects, so what about our Nanosuit?
The secret behind Susumu Tachi's active camouflage prototype
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories (a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin) have been working on a dramatically different strategy since 2009. The principle is to fabricate a material with differently-coloured lights attached to motors, which are embedded at the surface. These lights can be rotated and turned on and off dynamically to match the colour of the surroundings. Sounds pretty straightforward right? Well it is, until you scale it down to the molecular level.
Their motors are not electric; they are protein motors which run on tiny microtube rails. Their lights don't have bulbs. They are made up of quantum dot nano crystals. Quantum dots are highly fluorescent nanoscale metal semiconductors which can absorb and emit light of different wavelengths (colours). They are commonly used in nanomedicine as imaging and diagnostic tools due to their small size and favourable optical properties.
[Source] = Kotaku
03-08-2013
05:46 AM
I want one, just for the invisibility nano shizz.. that would be sweeeeet.
03-08-2013
05:50 AM
With a sexy voice though....
03-08-2013
06:38 AM
how do u pee in that thing?
03-08-2013
08:02 AM
03-08-2013
08:20 AM
a really interesting and well wrote article...nice work m8
03-08-2013
08:38 AM
So the body is alcatraz? the brain is prophet? Poor al hes a working corpse even b4 he wore the suit.. gonna start playing crysis 3 now!
03-08-2013
08:42 AM
I tought for a moment that was pure BS but seems that Crytek took very serious creation of Nanosuit and the specs of it.
Only difference and i think maybe we are light years of it. That this Nanomachines in the game pumps into user bloodstream giving him a temp boost.
This is creppy.
Suit is alive and prophet *soul* is in it while the corpse/body inside maybe is alcatraz probably merged with ceph tech.
03-08-2013
09:01 AM
^^ So, the person feels no muscular pain, fatigue, the nervous system is constantly stimulated and has anti inflammatory effects.
I want one of those. Who needs cocaine when you got this nanosuit?
03-08-2013
09:15 AM
Hellsing, nice article and very nice find. Please keep it to this standard else I will invest all my money in building this nanosuite, find you, and beat you with this suite on max strength until you write good articles again.
03-08-2013
09:18 AM
Nanosuit 2.0 it's the only one so far can achieve this.
Since is all over nervous system of the user.
I will have my nanosuit 3.0 soon...
03-08-2013
09:45 AM
can't wait.
im always getting caught going into the girl's shower rooms.
03-08-2013
09:46 AM
Well it's not surprising, actual science is only a step behind sci-fi. Pretty interesting stuff hellsing
03-08-2013
11:02 AM
Cloak it's an optical illusion. So if you are planning to go to gurls showers...well if light strikes your nanosuit or they see your shadow...better use sprint before get killed.
hope they deliver more about this...but the 4th crysis rumours said that no more suit.../sad.
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[MENTION=204892]malex[/MENTION] They gone too far with this one but i love this sci-fi tech that ended up to be a reality.
03-08-2013
03:03 PM
I can absolutely see soldiers state of mind being supported (I could say manipulated) to drown out fear, and psycho tendencies. Maybe nullify the sensation of pain? Who knows, maybe at some point you'll have soldiers with healing factors ala Wolverine made out of nanomachines... in all honesty the last thing we need is quasi-immortal soldiers. The one thing that might deter a lot of wars is the fact that people can die, how will it be without that?
03-08-2013
03:28 PM
But the *creepy side* of this history is that all related to this nanosuit even if it's sci-fi based on science facts, most of them are real.
You can build something similar with a nice investor just for fun but the way Crysis series explains that you are just a suit nothing more, you are far from being a immortal, it's cool.
Hence in order to use functions of it, you have those nanomachines pumped on your bloodstream and spread all over your nervous system.
Controlling emotions (MGS anyone? xD) it's a doble edged sword.
So the one who uses the suit all the time is a time bomb.
Give you a superhuman boost but kills you too. (Seems fare to me)
Now to the real world and wars and endless problems, we DON'T need a super soldier neither a suit like this.
But as MGS 4 (for example) there's enough room for many wars so instead of put stop on them, they control the battlefield and soldiers emotions. To keep cash coming in.
I only see a big paradox on this kind of content.
Maybe we are becoming those machines after all.
03-08-2013
05:56 PM
when these nanosuits actually appear, warfare wouldn't be the same, and then a country will go on world domination or NWO, and abuse people with these suits. Unless, like in the game we're invaded by...
03-09-2013
03:14 AM
[MENTION=186943]hellsing9[/MENTION]
Adverse effects after prolonged use seems pretty logical considering the body's reactions to hormones, drugs, etc.
03-09-2013
05:50 PM
Of course NanoSuit is real!
Cause Crysis creators are Turkish like me!
We are not kidding
03-09-2013
09:28 PM
Finally a nice post in ps3hax, apart from this ps4 thingy and software blahblah
) Very nice article man! maybe north korea have a prototype nanosuit that we dont know 
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03-14-2013
02:22 PM
This is serious stuff.I must say you really done your research and i truly enjoyed the article.Now on to the super jump :D