February 16, 2009 IBM once owned the computer marketplace, and although it no longer holds quite such prominence in the digital arena, it has retained the Number One Plate Holder's title at the US Patent Office for 16 years straight, winning the 2008 "most innovative" championship with 4,186 U.S. Patents, beating Samsung (3515) and Canon (2114). Indeed, last year its issuances were greater than Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Apple, EMC, Accenture and Google combined.
The company's research efforts of recent times have astounded even seasoned patent watchers – on February 3 it filed a patent for bionic body armor which not only recognises a bullet has been fired, but delivers a shock to the target's appropriate muscles so they step out fo the bullet's trajectory.
Via: TechFragments.
However if say the armor is highly accurate in calculating bullet trajectories it could if anything send a shock at the right time so that your body \"twitches\" just enough to not be hit, of course that would mean lots of instant processing power, that would calculate the type of gun, (maybe even bullet), cameras in order to cover a target in a 360 degree manner so i\'m not sure how they would overcome the equipement problems either you would be carrying a powerful ass computer on your back or information would be relayed via satellite, or as the picture states maybe a stand-alone mobile data relay like maybe a humvee or patrol car with the sole purpose of computing that information. In which case you come to another problem of time lag, especially when dealing with lethal force every millisecond counts that information would have to be traveling to and fro extremely fast for it to be just as successful as jumping behind cover would be :)