If you are prepared for the suits to be made of really thin, but still sufficiently protective, ultra-materials, then they can fold-up to fit into something like a 'morphing disc'.
The disc then contains a specialist expert system which scans the disc user, and folds the suit up when it is no longer used, or unfolds it and puts it on the wearer. The folding or unfolding process does use energy, which could be released as a flash of light, and air will be forced out of the way which will make a sound; with careful design the colour or pattern of the light or sound could be shaped. Extra work would be needed to remove, or replace, other clothes or foot wear that were worn, or supplied, but that would be do-able.
The actual suit effectively includes a set of highly specialised robot joints that do the (un)folding process - this could be done with micro engineering, without resorting to a suit made of nanobots, or needing nanotech, as long as you can get strong enough materials for the suit. Diamonoid would be the IRL material, but with access to handwavium you could use something better, that is closer to the properties you want. This is seriously cutting-edge technology, though.
Seeing as the suit has robot joints that have to move very quickly, anyhow, with very carefully applied force, the obvious abilities for the suit are strength amplification, enhanced reflexes, sentai-type leaping around (up or down several stories in height), etc. Any weapons would also be implemented via ultra-light material 'origami', but if you want them to have any 'heft' that would have to be faked-up using some sort of inertia manipulation.
One problem these suits might have would be effective heat dissipation, so the early models might have timer, which would show how much time was left before the circuits overheated. Getting rid of heat as bursts of infrared, or light, maybe even sparkles, might be one option.
Using the same sort of tech "monster of the week" could be made to unfold from quite a small 'seed', and when wrecked disintegrate or self-destruct to almost nothing.
Sorry, in these designs you would be wearing a suit that was stronger than spider silk, but about as light, or even lighter. Depending on the design, you might even be able to wear (standard shaped) underwear under it! But, no spandex, I'm afraid. [grin]
There are all sorts of possibilities. [grin]
All without having to use any sub space pockets. Though, you could lie and say that is what you were doing! [grin]
Please make use of the above as might work for your ideas - there is no obligation that you use this (or don't use this) in any particular way.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
The disc then contains a specialist expert system which scans the disc user, and folds the suit up when it is no longer used, or unfolds it and puts it on the wearer. The folding or unfolding process does use energy, which could be released as a flash of light, and air will be forced out of the way which will make a sound; with careful design the colour or pattern of the light or sound could be shaped. Extra work would be needed to remove, or replace, other clothes or foot wear that were worn, or supplied, but that would be do-able.
The actual suit effectively includes a set of highly specialised robot joints that do the (un)folding process - this could be done with micro engineering, without resorting to a suit made of nanobots, or needing nanotech, as long as you can get strong enough materials for the suit. Diamonoid would be the IRL material, but with access to handwavium you could use something better, that is closer to the properties you want. This is seriously cutting-edge technology, though.
Seeing as the suit has robot joints that have to move very quickly, anyhow, with very carefully applied force, the obvious abilities for the suit are strength amplification, enhanced reflexes, sentai-type leaping around (up or down several stories in height), etc. Any weapons would also be implemented via ultra-light material 'origami', but if you want them to have any 'heft' that would have to be faked-up using some sort of inertia manipulation.
One problem these suits might have would be effective heat dissipation, so the early models might have timer, which would show how much time was left before the circuits overheated. Getting rid of heat as bursts of infrared, or light, maybe even sparkles, might be one option.
Using the same sort of tech "monster of the week" could be made to unfold from quite a small 'seed', and when wrecked disintegrate or self-destruct to almost nothing.
Sorry, in these designs you would be wearing a suit that was stronger than spider silk, but about as light, or even lighter. Depending on the design, you might even be able to wear (standard shaped) underwear under it! But, no spandex, I'm afraid. [grin]
There are all sorts of possibilities. [grin]
All without having to use any sub space pockets. Though, you could lie and say that is what you were doing! [grin]
Please make use of the above as might work for your ideas - there is no obligation that you use this (or don't use this) in any particular way.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind