There are cosplayers and then there’s this guy, or as he calls himself, the Real Tony Stark. His homemade Mark V armor is nearly good enough to pass as a legitimate movie prop. The man even built-in glowing eyes, a lighted arc reactor and sound effects powered by an Arduino controller. The video after the jump doesn’t exactly do the whole project justice. Jump over to his 89 photos on Cosplay.com for what’s probably a tiny peek at the sheer amount of work he put into the suit. It’s nuts.

[via Geekologie]

So you’re really into cosplay, and want to build the ultimate Iron Man armor. Easy enough right? It’s the flying thing and weaponry that’s the problem. Well, here’s a little help with the weapons. Ok, so maybe it’s not really a repulsor, but if you build it properly you could use it to temporarily blind your enemy. This build is simple enough, construct an arm mounted framework, and then use LEDs and some parts from a disposable camera and you are all ready to go. For detailed instructions, just go here.

[via Hackaday]

I based the build from this picture from comic-con. The Costume is 100% home made, the build took approximately 2 weeks and 5 days. I’m a very busy person as well! Over 700+ rivets and rivet washer used. All items on the costume are 100% made from scratch. I’ve lso taken this costume to the children’s hospital to give them a sense of joy to know that a hero has come to wishes them a happy Halloween.

build materials
-High impact urethane plastic
-700+ rivets and washer used
-heat gun
-hot glue gun
-boat load of hot glue sticks
-Open flip helmet “like Ironman movie”
-lighted chest R-T and replusor gloves “like the movie”
-flexible abdominal area, and join covers.
-voice changer in helmet “when spoken into, makes me sound like a robot”

In Jon Favreau’s upcoming sequel to Iron Man, Mickey Rourke will be going head to head with Robert Downey Jr. as Whiplash aka Ivan Vanko. The Russian “has constructed his own version of a suit,” says Favreau. It’s unclear whether or not Whiplash will be the same character as he is in the comics (Justin Hammer’s weapons designer), but Favreau likes to mix things up to “play into and against expectations.” So what does Rourke have to say about his whip wielding character in ‘Iron Man 2′; Whiplash “is going to light them up.”

First look: Mickey Rourke suits up as Whiplash for ‘Iron Man 2′ [USA Today]

While that certainly doesn’t look like any Android UI we’ve seen, BoyGeniusReport is hearin’ whispers that the handset you see up above is one of Motorola’s first outings in Android territory.

Codenamed, nicknamed, or just plain name-named (they’re not sure which) “Ironman”, Motorola is supposedly aiming at a Q3 release. Specific specs are absent, but this handset will purportedly be a relatively high-end beast: Wi-Fi, 3G, a “screamin’ CPU”, and a high-res camera are all mentioned.

While the hardware looks and sounds legit enough, we’re not too sure about the Android bit. Even if that image on screen is just a placeholder (or Motorola took Android and uglied it up a bit), where are the home/back/menu keys? Touch-sensitive keys just not lit up for the render? Perhaps, but that seems strange. Oh well – if this is leaking a full quarter before the rumored release, we’re sure to hear more.

Iron Man wasn’t as successful here in Japan as in the USA but that didn’t stop Sony Pictures to produce a Nippon-only Blu-ray box of the movie that includes an exclusive figure of the super hero. Gaijin can get the set via stores such as Amazon Japan or CD Japan (where it’s not yet listed though).

Sony Pictures says the figure stands 12cm tall and buyers will get two Blu-rays with the movie on one (English and Japanese soundtrack in TrueHD 5.1ch) and special features on the other.

The Iron Man Collector’s Box is limited to 3,000 and comes with an MSRP of $140 (Amazon Japan’s price is $105, however).

The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Collection is the best Blu-ray release of the year. So says the High-Def Disc Awards, which were handed out yesterday.

The $130 retail set (but available for much less on Amazon), which includes all three Godfather films, won Best of Show and Best Catalog Title.

As far as theatrical releases go (which excludes collections and the like), Iron Man won Blu-ray title of the year.

Transformers won for best audio.

Meanwhile, we continue to debate whether or not Blu-ray will ever move beyond the videophile segment.

Sure, Halloween is over but that doesn’t mean you can’t spend your lonely weekend constucting an Iron Man helmet. Instructiable should give you enough info but this might not be for fiberglass or Bondo virgins. Still, you have to start somewhere and if you’re good ‘nough, you too could be rocking an Iron Man helmet just like the winner above.

Having problems accessing the BD-Live content of Iron Man? Turns out you’re not alone, and Paramount thinks it knows what’s going on: the movie is just too gosh darn popular!

The movie, which was released on Blu-ray last Tuesday, is so popular, Paramount says, that the record number of people trying to access the BD-Live content have overloaded the servers. And when the servers are under so much strain is when you see the connectivity issues.

That being said, Paramount says the issues should be gone by now, as it has shored up the relevant servers.

Also, is the movie any good? I don’t want to waste precious BitTorrent ratio on a cruddy movie.

Interestingly, this red, white, and blue confection is being touted as a Iron Man watch in the UK, which doesn’t quite make sense. Presumably the Iron Man suit has a built-in HUD with the time. Why would Iron Man strap on a watch? It reminds me of this guy who used to sit in computer class in front of a Windows 98 machine and ask “Hey, does anyone know the time?”

Anyway, the watch should make its way over here for about $500. I like Casio Waveceptors but this one’s complicated face might be a bit jarring for a certain subset of horology buffs.

So when you are configuring your next Dell Inspiron, Studio, or XPS system, there is going to be a $20 option to have Dell preload Iron Man on your machine. Yup. Great movie but a little strange business model. Word is that Dell is trying to get more and more studios signed on to expand the selection past this one movie. If Dell is to have their way, you should be able to purchase a slew of movies to fill up your brand new machine and there might even be an online movie store. No word on the DRM specifics besides that a owner will be able burn one copy, but something tells us you’re not going to be able to share this file at your LAN party.

Conveniently timed for the DVD/BluRay release of Iron Man that just so happens to be going down in 3 days, 37 oh-so-awesome pieces of concept art and set stills have wound up online.

Besides being some outright impressive work, the concept art is a shining example of how well even the most complex of artistic visions can be translated to the big screen. Check out shot three for example – it’s like they just took a frame straight out of the finished film.

There are also a handful of behind-the-scenes set shots at the tail end of the gallery. Gah, now I want to go watch the movie again.

[Via Yahoo]

This is a gadget blog not a movie blog!

Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to share with my fellow comic book geeks the unboxing of the Blu-ray “Iron Man” Ultimate Edition. I have yet to pop it in and give it a whirl, but I figured an unboxing would suffice for now. Check out the gallery after the jump and the list of goodies you can expect from the 2-disc set.

Disc 1

• Hall of Armor
• The Invincible Iron Man (HD)
  • Origins
  • Friends & Foes
  • The Definitive Iron Man
  • Demon in a Bottle
  • Extremis and Beyond
  • Unlimited Iron Man
• Deleted/Extended Scenes (HD)
• BD Live
  • Iron Man IQ

Disc 2

• I Am Iron Man (HD)
  • The Journey Begins
  • The Suite that makes the Iron Man
  • The Walk of Destruction
  • Grounded in Reality
  • Beneath the Armor
  • It’s All in the Details
  • A Good Story, Well Told
• Wired: The Visual Effects of Iron Man
• Robert Downey Jr. Screen Test (HD)
• The Actor’s Process (scene rehearsal with cast) (HD)
• The Onion “Wildly Popular Iron Man Trailer to be Adapted into Full Length Film” (HD)
• Theatrical Trailers (HD)
• Image Galleries

Amazon isn’t revealing what’s so special about the collector’s edition of the greatest comic book movie ever made, but the pre-order is up for $27.95. No word on when it will ship. I hope it’s by summer’s end.

Here’s the reactor, here’s the mask, and here’s the whole freakin helmet.

A U.S. Army contractor has developed an Iron Man-like suit that can amplify human strength by up to 20 times. (You’d almost be able to lift Biggs, then!) The suit, developed by Salt Late City-based robotics house Sarcos, is expected to go into trials next year. If all the bugs are worked out—the battery currently only lasts about 30 minutes per charge—the Army says it may one day actually be used in the battlefield. In the meantime, it’ll be limited to auxiliary roles like lifting cargo.

So yeah, pretty awesome, and exactly the type of thing I want to see my tax dollars going toward.