cybersuit

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ suit

Noun

cybersuit (plural cybersuits)

1. (science fiction) A hypothetical suit of clothing that augments the wearer's capabilities by means of computer technology.
   • 1999, Herbert Blau, Nothing in itself: complexions of fashion, page 268:

     The notion of a second skin may still be more seductive in the imagining than the reality, but on the utopian side of the Blade Runner there is the prospect of cybersuits, made possible by petrochemical fabrics.

   • 2002, Douglas Mulhall, Our molecular future:

     Just as these suits make cybersex possible, they let the physician poke and feel, using cybergloves on one end and the patient's cybersuit responding on the other.

   • 2010, Sam Fisher, E-FORCE: State of Emergency, page 61:

     He was looking at a small flexible screen wrapped halfway around his forearm, meshed into the fabric of his cybersuit.

See also

• cyberglove
• cybergoggles
• dataglove, data glove