Power Armor For the Elderly · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 22, 2005 @06:41PM from the super-monkey-rocket-old-lady-force-go dept.

aicrules writes "The question of how to care for the growing number of people in the upper age bracket has a new answer - assistive power armor for the elderly." From the article: "The sleek, high-tech get-up looks like a white suit of armor. It straps onto a person's arms, legs and back and is equipped with a computer, motors and sensors that detect electric nerve signals transmitted from the brain when a person tries to move his limbs. When the sensors detect the nerve signals, the computer starts up the relevant motors to assist the person's motions. Sankai says the suit, dubbed 'Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) 5,' can let a person who can barely do an 176-pound leg press handle 397 pounds."

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Re:What has happened to Slashdot? by colinrichardday · 2005-07-23 01:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well, yeah, if PPC is so cool, then why is Apple switching over to Intel? :-)

Also, the problem with legs is those damn kids with their tow-cable enhanced speeders.