You do not need goggles, What you need is alot of money. Look up Corning: a day made of glass. Extremely expensive but will provide Thermal, Be able to Identify and lock targets (allready used in the military) and everything you will need to see out of. But in order to see whats in front of you, you are going to need 1-3 camaras to capture live footage around you. like this. this is the left side of your cam^ This is the Helmet O The Cam would be mounted and protected on the Left side of your Helmet.(by the way I'm just explaining where I would mount them where i think I would need visual contact. so all together <>^O^<> (The <> are the shoulders) I would want the mini cams to be as close to my ears as possible because for 1, They will act as my eyes, and for 2, Cams give out audeo as well. Both things you would need for the corning glass in front of your eyes (Cams and glass protected ofcourse incase you take a punch in The head lol) Now another thing brought to my attention is With the corning glass so small for your eyes, it would be like a extremely mini flat screen t.v lol Located all over the center part of corning glass is everything you need to program etc .... YOU would need a freaking microscope, alot of time, and a mini pin pointer to program it the way you want. The way it talks to you, what you want to see etc.. A microscope now??? come on! 2nd idea. The actual size they sell corning glass in, worked on to meet your needs, then downloaded into a miniture size of corning glass fit your Your eyes. Now do you see why i said you need a butt load of money? Tony starks is a genius and has a butt load of money lol which is why he is able to do what they portray him to do =D I may not be a genius but I love Technology ^^ I allready know how to put l.e.d lights inside a suit of armor i made :) Took a base ball bat to it and didnt brake :) thank god for bondo and fiberglass and padding ;P The suits i make though got nothing on what i want to do though. But as i said. You want the good stuff you are going to need to make friends with bill gates XD

another thing im working on is the hud system, trying to make it work with a pair of those computer screen goggles, with a built in camera to make normal vision possible through the goggles as well as enhanced vision(zoom), as well as integrating laptop hardware into the system to make it work using speech recognition.  its just a concept, but i have worked out the details in my mind.  the idea is sound, i just need to incorporate it.

the iron man suit is cirtainly possible but with current tech you would only be able to achieve a tier 10 grade armor because of the limits or the power source, the iron man suit in the first film is a tier 11 device because of the arc reactor, without it you can only hope to reach teir 10 but in the day and age such power is not needed, the only problem i have encountered is with the flight system but using agas turbine design i have developed, a variation of an afterburning thruster, you could acchieve flight but not mach speeds. if anyone out there would like to join me in developeing these devices please contact me at jamestdashmore@hotmail.co.uk

just a note, the solar capture idea is a great one and would be a massive enhancement to the powering of such devices, a warrior of light kinda thing, i also have a feeling that radient energy capture would be ideal for such applications,

time to go big or go home.

I believe it could technically be possible. the power source wouldnt exactly be like the one in the movie, but, for continuous use, would need solar powered battery cells located around the armor. from my research, I think the repulsors may really be ion propulsion engines, which are currently being developed for long distance space travel. the mechanical systems would likely be hydraulic, judging from the occasional leak of fluid you see in the movie during combat. in short, with enough time, yes.

the iron man suit could be made if you can get the arc reactor it would just be a matter for the rest of the suit to be made you could use nuclear jets to power and titanium carbon carbon (look it up its real) instead of the gold titanium alloy

ever heard of the XOS exoskeleton?

Arc reactor could be a simple plasma reactor miniaturized that recycles its own fuel. The mechanics of the suit are relatively simple, you have an exoskeleton with powered joints. Movement could be achieved with high torque servo motors. Again, not hard to do.

The suit in the movie was a gold titanium alloy. Could be done, but would be overtly expensive, Lets cut that to simple aluminum, or steel, or titanium. All easily had, but some hard to work with. We will ignore working for the moment, and just look at properties. The suit needs to be heavy to do what was shown. Aluminum and titanium are light, so we will drop them from the mix. Steel it is! A cubic inch of steel, depending on type, weighs about .283 lbs./ cu. in.That may not seem like a lot, but you can easily expect 300+ pounds for the skeleton/suit itself.

The base armor design is pretty simple, now you just have to power it. I don't have a hole in my chest to place a power source, so a pack of some kind will have to be made. Nothing exotic, just a fuel cell, turbine, or other multi-fuel generator. That will provide plenty of zappy juice.

Now the HUD is an issue. Someone commented earlier that they were using goggles with screens inside attached to cameras. I think that is a great idea, but you need several cameras. Standard, thermal, IR, and perhaps a low grade x-ray fluroscope. (No, I would not like to stand in front of this suit.)

Apart from weapons, that about covers it. Now can we move this from discussion to prototype?

Yup Its Possible And They Have Created One. But It Cant Shoot Lasers Or Missiles. Its Just A Start Off For The Invention. Its Called Powered Exoskeleton. It Is Used As An Armor And Can Lift Really Heavy Weights. I Found This In Wikipedia. Look Up In It...!   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeleton

it is i read an article on a guuy who didit somewhere

all of the lifting and superhuman strength is possible (I was going to do my right arm as a proof of conecpt, but it'd cost about 175 to do, so I didn't. I'd be able to lift up to 300 pounds with just my right arm (well, it'd probably lift me instead of the object, but you get the point). Screen is possible Rockets, not really, balance and fuel would be a problem.

Anything is possible if you put your mind to it!

Ark reactor is too futuristic but I don't know much about power so whatever. You can do anything if you throw enough money at it. Nobody here could build this. period.

Basically, no. The jets are a no, the weapons would be a no (most of them), the armor material itself would be close to no (maybe full no?) and the power source to power it all is most definitely a no. If they did make it it would be a military project and millions would be put into it. So that means REALLY no for an everyday joe to do at home.

I was thinking of creating an Iron Man project. I starting to work on it with my team. I know its hard, but if we work together on this project, we can change the whole future around. Its a classified New Republic project called, "Project I." I made the name myself. If you guys want to join the team, you're welcome to. I'll explain the rules when you join the team.

I was thinking all of us could design the Armour and the Ark Reactor. It could be possible for us to design and then come up with new ideas to power the suit and its attributes. If that's an option, is it?

I have not seen the movie, but considering the direction most super hero movies tend to go in, many times they defy a lot of the laws of physics.

Take the Hulk for instance, although he got big (and we will suspend criticizm of that for now) he would never be heavy enogh to do what he does in the movie. No matter how strong one is, you can not lift, throw, move certain things quickly if you can not supply one of two things:

#1: either the proper leverage (and that would be cheating in the eyes of the movie,
or
#2: the bulk or mass greater then the object being moved.

Since I am less familiar with Iron Man, I am not sure if he lifts, moves, stops the advancement of, or redirects any heavy or fast moving objects. So, this post of mine may be just a lot of hot air :-)

Main problem would be the power source. The power source in the movie isn't posible.