Building Tomorrow's Soldier Today

FleaPlus writes "Wired reports on a glove developed by Stanford researchers Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller which combines a cooling system with a vacuum in order to chill blood vessels and drastically reduce fatigue. Besides the obvious military and athletics applications, the technology is also potentially useful for firefighters, stroke victims, and people with multiple sclerosis. The Wired article also describes a number of other human enhancement projects intended to advance battlefield technology. Examples include military exoskeletons, projects designed to increase cognition or decrease the need for sleep, and studies that may one day allow single soldiers to operate multiple aerial drones. Many of these were opposed by the President's Council on Bioethics."

Comments

Solider?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Building Tomorrow's Solider Today

Yes, let's build it, so I can see what it looks like.

Re:Solider?

[bommai]

May be tomorrow solider can be soldered if broken.

Re:Solider?

[Red Flayer]

No, solider implies that it cannot be soldered. It is solider than solid.

On a state-of-matter scale of 1 to 10 (1 being gaseous, 10 being completely solid) this one goes up to 11.

let's build those soliders

[roman_mir]

Soliders are what we all need, not the emptiers or the hollowers, but the soliders, they shall be hard and dimensional, dependible and reliable, continuous and complete rather than divided, broken, incomplete, hollow, interrupted, intermittent, tenuous, untrustworthy, vulnerable, fluid, gaseous, unsubstantial, liquid, soft or vaporous.

While we are at it, let's build a better responsible useful /. editor and an intelligent moderator.

I believe there's a name for them

[Billosaur]

Terminators.

Possible civilian use

[Lurker2288]

So, this is a glove that reduces hand fatigue, huh? Yeah, so, uh, have they tested it to see the effects of getting baby oil or hand lotion on it? And are the palms abrasive at all? I mean, just out of curiosity. Because I like science, and stuff.

Is this a regular crappy Wired article or a user..

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Is this a regular crappy Wired article or a user-generated crappy Wired article? I'm just dying to know...

Presidential Support?

[Roger W Moore]

This bears all the hallmarks of strong backing by the US president. Dubious ethics and even more dubious english!