Invisibility
Scientists have invented an invisibility cloak. All that is needed is a highly reflective outfit… a video camera, a computer, a projector, and a special half-silvered mirror - all set up in advance… and ah yeah… your enemy not to move from the spot where you appear to be invisible!
Gi-Ron's super-suit made of a strong flexible LCD screen has a camera in the back and front. When the images from the cameras are shown on the opposite side of his super-suit he disappears into the background.
Vanisher uses a new material with a structure that changes the direction the light is travelling in. The material in Vanisher's super-suit curves the light around them – similar to water flowing round a rock in a river – and they vanish.
SUPER VISION, SUPER HEARING AND SUPER SOUND
With the right cameras, transmitters and receivers built into a pair of 'bionic glasses' – glasses that connect to a microchip in the retina of the eye – it could possible to create vision powers, for example telescopic, microscopic and night vision.
Bats and dolphins have natural supervision. They use sound to see - called ultrasound imaging or echolocation.
Create super hearing by connecting a microchip to a cochlear implant to amplify sounds. With wireless technology you could even connect to mobile phone networks.
Siren song's artificial voice box produces sounds and vibrations that can shatter glass, attract animals and even make people ill!
Exoskeleton
Captain T: Designed by Gracemont Academy pupils for ESP!
Body armour has been around for years but these days exoskeletons can provide protection, give you strength and many more super powers.
Captain T's exoskeleton, built from titanium (light, strong and shiny), has a bionic eye with a heat sensor, telescopic vision and a computer screen in his helmet that pops over his eye.
Artificial / Bionic Limbs
The Claw
Tornado Man: Designed by St Mary's Primary School for ESP!
People can control modern bionic limbs using their thoughts – just like a real arm. Artificial muscles move the limb and these muscles are connected to the wearer's nerve endings in their stump.
Tornado Man has motorised artificial legs that allow him to run very fast and spin round really really quickly creating a tornado effect, and he has an artificial hand. He's certainly a handy man to have around with his 'handy belt' that holds his replacement hands - a chainsaw, grappling hook, etc.
Flexibility
The Coiler: Designed by Loudoun Academy pupils for ESP!
A shape memory alloy is a material (usually a metal or polymer) that can be made to remember shapes. When it heats up to a set temperature it changes from the shape it is in back to its original shape. The Coiler's limbs are made from shape memory alloy springs to extend his reach and give him an extra lift or put a spring in his step!
Polymorph plastic is a hard solid when cold but heat it up (above 60°C) and it can be stretched, bent, bounced, pulled apart and put back together again! When it cools down it goes back to being hard and inflexible.
Super Human - Speed, Strength and Stamina
Quick Heal Neil's adrenaline boost buttons give him super strength and increase his stamina. The adrenaline speeds up the supply of oxygen and glucose to the brain and muscles. An artificial blood substitute could be used to increase the amount of oxygen in his blood making him super super human!
An exoskeleton can also be adapted to provide speed!
Flight and the Ability to Climb
Midnight Blue: Designed by Battlefield Primary School pupils for ESP!
Kill-Kat: Designed by Gracemont High School pupils for ESP!
No problem getting down from a high building with a wing-suit. The fabric panels between the arms and legs inflate, slowing you down and letting you control your direction. Just don't try running away from your enemies with your arms out!
Midnight Blue has wings on her super suit so she can glide. If they were made from a shape memory alloy polymer they could fold away when not in use.
Geckos can climb up walls and hang around on ceilings all because of the tiny hairs and pads on their feet. They produce electrical attractions (known as Van der Waals forces) that make them stick. Kill-Kat has gecko hairs on her gloves, suit and shoes enabling her to climb up surfaces.