A quickie business idea for "Mr. Glass".

In the movie "Unbreakable" the "villain" is a guy with a genetic disorder that makes his bones brittle.  If you know the film then you know him as Mr. Glass.  Great film by the way.

I got to thinking recently how if you have this condition (yes, it's real) you're only defense is constant vigilance.  Not too effective really.  I used to collect comic books and there is a character named Wolverine who has metal strips put into his bones to strengthen them.  We don't have the technology to do that now and even if we did getting around the rejection factor and the weakening of the immune system would be another set of problems.  But we do have the technology to make a simple exoskeleton, not like a suit of armor but something unobtrusive.

My idea is to get carbon fiber rods (super strong and lightweight) and put them in a fabric "sleeve".  Arms and legs would be easy; for a prototype use the tattoo cover sleeves (Ink Armor makes one) as the base, sew the rods into one, slide the next sleeve over the first and then finish sewing the rods into place.  The customer base is small enough that custom ordering would be the norm.  Or would it?  The sleeves could also be used for anyone with osteoporosis, bone spurs, and various other reasons.  Certain sizes could be ready made and available to ship, others would be a custom job.  From what I hear Olympic level skiers use forearm protectors that have something like cornstarch in them, they're flexible until sudden kinetic pressure is applied and then they become rigid.  I don't think that would work for people that have osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) but maybe I'm wrong.

These would give some protection for the arms and legs; joints, ribs, pelvis, etc would have to be protected differently.  Possibly a real engineer could get involved with that.  In thinking about this I watched Children of Glass.  That told me a lot about the other problems that OI people deal with.  This invention wouldn't help those other things but it could help with walking in a crowded mall or at a sporting event.

I don't know if the actuality of this idea would work or not, if it does I'm not expecting any money from it.  If someone makes and sells them I would like acknowledgement (it looks great on the resume) but if this could help someone then I'm pretty happy.  If someone gets the idea and makes body armor for the military or sports, then hell yes I want a cut.