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Jun 5, 20161 min

NAVY'S 'IRON MAN' DIVE HELMET FOR DIVERS

Futuristic Hollywood superhero fantasies actually inspire real-world military-related inventions. Recently, the US Navy has created an Iron Man-style helmet specifically designed for its divers. While there are striking features that resemble the kind of contraption that Tony Stark wears in the Iron Man movies, it is not the type that you'd expect divers to wear to fight some bad guys.The new diving helmet is reserved for top US Navy specialists or elite operatives. Features include HD resolution heads-up display that allow divers to send, receive, and display images and videos during operations.This head gear is technically called the Divers Augmented Vision Display (DAVD), a big yellow-colored helmet with Iron Man-like technological capability developed by the Navy's Underwater Systems Development Project

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