What are the comic book geniuses going to do when all their super-heroes are being mass produced in real life? Stan Lee's Ironman, for instance, is coming soon to the big screen. But who wants to see Robert Downey Jr. bedecked in special effects, when a company in Utah, of all places, is making the real thing?

Stephen Jacobsen, president of SLC's Raytheon Sarcos has invented a super-soldier "exoskeleton" that is giving the U.S. military a case of the vapors. Jacobsen explains the process of coming up with scaryassed inventions:

People call it different things. Sometimes they call it inventing, sometimes they call it engineering. Sometimes they call it being a mad scientist or whatever. To us, it's the process of getting together, understanding the problems, goals and then designing something to satisfy the need.

Just what the world needs, even bigger, more deadly jarheads.

Jacobsen says he'll probably buy a ticket to "Ironman."

I go to see all those movies. They're fun. They stimulate your imagination.