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MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the spandex-makes-a-comeback dept.

iamdrscience writes "MIT aeronautics professor Dava Newman has designed a new spacesuit along with her colleague, Jeff Hoffman and a group of students. This is far sleeker and lighter weight than the suits used by astronauts today, promising greater mobility than the traditional bulky suits of today which can weigh 300lbs or more. Instead of gas pressurization, the new prototype BioSuit employs "mechanical counter-pressure" in the form of skin-tight layers wrapped around the body."
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html

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  1. Two MIT slashvertisements in one day? by the_tsi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, seriously, who at MIT is paying Slashdot for all these ads? It's like suddenly MIT is the new Google or Apple or Nintendo.

    That said, imagine the computational power of a beowulf of MITs! If they cured fear and invented a new spacesuit in one day, imagine all the other crazy stuff they could come up with! Even better, if MIT can run Linux, then... wait, I guess most of MIT does already.

    I must be new here.