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<p>It looks like we'll be facing hordes of invading Enclave soldiers in
the not-too-distant future. The one advantage the scattered remains of
humanity will have against the onslaught is that the suits will be worn
by Old Age Pensioners. <a target="_self" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... >According to New Scientist</a>...</p>
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<p><em>A robot suit has been developed that could help older people or those with disabilities to walk or lift heavy objects.</em></p>
<p><em>Dubbed
HAL, or hybrid assistive limb, the latest versions of the suit will be
unveiled this June at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan, which opened
last month. A commercial product is slated for release by the end of
the year.</em></p>
<p><em>HAL
is the result of 10 years' work by Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University
of Tsukuba in Japan, and integrates mechanics, electronics, bionics and
robotics in a new field known as cybernics. The most fully developed
prototype, HAL 3, is a motor-driven metal "exoskeleton" that you strap
onto your legs to power-assist leg movements. A backpack holds a
computer with a wireless network connection, and the batteries are on a
belt.</em></p>
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<p> Here's a picture:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images ... 945801.jpg" target="nsimage"><img border="0" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images ... 1thumb.jpg" alt="HAL 3" title="HAL 3" class="centered block" />
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<p>With the new pope heralding an apocalypse and power armour being developed, I think someone's trying to give us a warning.
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Power Armour FOR REALZ!
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Mr. Teatime
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Sound the alarm! ENTER YOUR HOMES!With the new pope heralding an apocalypse and power armour being developed, I think someone's trying to give us a warning.
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Eventually, everyone will be wearing one and this will cause their muscles to weaken and deteriorate... so everything seems to be going as planned:New Scientist Technology wrote:The motors respond faster to signals from the wearer's brain than their own muscles
There are no 'knowns'. There are thing we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.
