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Exoskeletons For Rent In Japan
destinyland writes "Cyberdyne has started renting their exoskeleton body suits in Japan. The mind-controlled wearable machine increases strength and endurance, and rents for $2,300 a month. (Sensors on the skin detect traces of nerve signals from the brain, synchronizing the power suit's movements with the user's own limbs.) New video shows the suits in use on the streets of Tokyo, and the concept may be catching on. DARPA now has a program called Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation 'to develop devices and machines that will increase the speed, strength and endurance of soldiers in combat environments.'"
I've got one argument against it: People on the street going "Ha-haa! Cripple!" (And rightfully so, because if you not already are one, you will become one by using this all day long.)
Besides: Humans are the most enduring runners on the whole freakin' planet! Why deliberately destroy that? :)
I prefer to tune my free perfectly good biological machine, rather than buy an expensive experimental thing that hasn't stood the test of anything, let alone time.
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We don't need to provide exoskeletons to guys like you. We need to throw you guys into some sort of chamber where maybe poisonous gas gets diffused in and ends your lives. Yeah, you cripples make me sick and just throw a whole wrench into the fabric of society. I wonder if this post is a violation of the ADA? Fuck it, you need to liquidate cripples in this country, including fat people starting with you. 30 yrs old and a bad knee? Useless. I bet you're a Jew too.
Wow another cripple. See my earlier comment about the gas chamber. It's cheaper, easier, and permanent. We won't have cripples like you holding up intersections because "whaa! whaa! i'm a cripple with a bad back". Sometimes I wish ObamaCare would have some of those deathpanels but not for old people, just for whiny cripples who should have been aborted. I guess our only hope is that whatever disease you have progresses faster and you die in a year, or a driver, tired of putting up with Cripple Nation runs your sorry ass over. Then you can go bitch to your God for why he hates you so much.
Damn straight! Fatties need to get SUVs where another 400 lbs aren't really noticable to the car.
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