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Powered Exoskeletons In The Near Future?

Posted by Hemos on from the zeon-here-i-come dept.

PhReaKyDMoNKeY writes "Discover Magazine's latest issue has a story about powered exoskeletons and how they aren't terribly far off. Sounds pretty damn cool, except maybe for the centaur flatbed model. Screw a Segway, gimme one of these babies."

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  1. good for commuters? by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm too old for the army, but I think it would be extremely fun to put on my "running pants" and motorcycle helmet and run 50 miles to work like the bionic man. I hope that the no pedestrians rule would be waived so I could use the commuter carpool lane.

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  2. Obligatory Onion link by legLess · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of my favorite The Onion articles:

    Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton . It's got a great photo.

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    This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
  3. What comes next? by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will believe that exoskeletons are possible when I see such other anime cliches as germ warfare, human cloning, apocalyptic events and cynical plots to form a one world government come true.


    Oh wait...

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  4. Exoskeleton picture by Nathdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those of you having trouble getting through to the article you can see a picture of the proposed exoskeleton here

    :)