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Building Tomorrow's Soldier Today

Posted by Zonk on from the i'll-take-an-exoskeleton-and-four-drones-please dept.

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."

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  1. High fiber? by wraithinfinite · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Making soldiers more solid daily, thanks science!

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  2. Building Tommorow's Solider Today by Recovering+Hater · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Solid Snake? BROOOOOTHEERRR!

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  3. Bad grammar! by brian0918 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That headline should read, "Building Tomorrow's More Solid Today"

  4. Re:I'm sure I won't be the first to ask by sconeu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's obviously less liquider or gasser.

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  5. Re:Solider? by beef+curtains · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it was really so important to get that info out there, you could have posted Anon.

    I see your point, in the context of the comment you're responding to. So what was your excuse for posting anonymously? Didn't want to get modded Flaimbait or Troll? Doesn't that make you a karma whore also, in that you're afraid to speak your mind in cases where you fear it might affect your karma?

    I wish I could mod your comment -1, Hypocrite.

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