College Student Makes His Own Fully Functional Batman Suit
You don’t need a billion-dollar bank account and an unresolved childhood trauma to become Batman. All you need is Kevlar, a couple grand and a dream.
21-year-old Philadelphia University industrial design student Jackson Gordon (no relation to Gotham City’s police commissioner) shows off his DIY Batman suit in a new video. But this is no mere costume; Gordon designed it to be fully functional crime-fighting wear.
He’s Batman. Jackson Gordon rocks his Batman outfit. (Photo: Facebook/Armatus Designs)
“My goal was to create a real world equivalent of Batman’s armor,” Gordon says in the video. He says his creation will “protect the wearer from harsh impacts and bladed weapons without slowing them down or limiting mobility.”
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Using $2,000, most of which he raised on Kickstarter, Gordon set about fashioning his design. He told BuzzFeed he created the suit from layers of fabric, including impact-absorbing foam and Kevlar. The impact-resistant armor plates are made from ¼" ABS sheets, which he blasted with a heat gun to make pliable. He then added the armor to the suit and faster than you can say, “To the Batmobile!” his Batsuit was ready for its Bat-closeup.
(Photo: Facebook/Armatus Designs)
Gordon’s new video provides ample demonstration of what the suit can do. Gordon enlisted friends to kick and punch him to show the suit’s impact resistance. One knife-wielding guy even stabbed and slashed Gordon to highlight the suit’s invulnerability to blades. Unlike the movie Batman’s suit, Gordon’s isn’t bullet-resistant but, fortunately, no one shoots him in the video.
(Photo: YouTube/Armatus Designs)
We also see Gordon, an avid martial artist, go through some impressive fighting moves to demonstrate the armor’s remarkable flexibility.
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Gordon told BuzzFeed he’s thinking of selling a version of this suit through his company, Armatus Designs, to customers who’d like some extra protection for motorcycle riding or security work.
But of course, some might also want to use this creation to wage their own nighttime vigilante campaigns.
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