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Cool stuff!. I've linked to articles on the same technology before, of course, but what's cool here is that they're going to be on the market soon. The mark 4 and 5 prototypes allow a person to life 40 kg more than they can unassisted. Let this technology mature for a few years and it'll undoubtedly be more. Finally I can begin assembling my superhero outfit!
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That's so very cool. It seems to me there is a lot of recent breakthroughs or releases of new technology. I love it.
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I don't mean to belittle the development, I think it's awesome. But how long, really, will it be before someone mounts guns on one of those things? Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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There's no doubt that this will have military applications. The first models probably won't be rugged enough, but give the technology a few generations to mature and combat uses are pretty much a given.
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I'm sure the US is trying to develop one, but I haven't heard any stories about a successful prototype.
This fellow is about to unveil a fully functional commercial release which sounds like its leaps and bounds ahead of anything the US Military has either developed on their own or successfully commissioned.
Feh - strap that sucker with kevlar and you've got a light tank that would make most SWAT units sit up and beg.
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Trevor, you realize that the fact that the general public hasn't heard about a piece of military technology doesn't mean that that piece of technology doesn't exist, right?
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"Has not seen a successful military deployment in any overt theatre of operations or in any functioning capacity insofar as the general public is aware."
However, as a general rule of thumb, I don't give the US military much credit for developing functional weapons systems first time out and then not trumpeting their success.
quote:Has not seen a successful military deployment in any overt theatre of operations or in any functioning capacity insofar as the general public is aware.
Well okay then!
How long was the stealth bomber around before its existence was known to the general public? Honest question--I really don't know the answer. I thought, though, that it had been around for quite a while.
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It's entirely possible - but stealth fighters/bombers are, by their very nature, hard to detect at the best of times considering how they are utilized.
Imagine trying to use a new tank and not having reports trickle out. I have a hard time believing that something as "in your face" as an armored gorilla wouldn't raise eyebrows and start tounges wagging as soon as it lumbered out.
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Yeah, that's a point, although the military has been pretty successful at keeping journalists from running free in Iraq. Still, I doubt that such a system has actually been deployed in combat yet, even if it exists.
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New field? Cybernics? Try Cybernetics, a concept that has existed in Sci-Fi for one hell of a long time, and which this would fall under! New field my arse... Posts: 3295 | Registered: Jun 2004
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quote:A Japanese quadriplegic plans to climb to the peak of a Swiss mountain by riding piggyback on a mountaineer who will get some extra muscle from a robot suit.
Seiji Uchida, 43, will take a cable car to within striking distance of the Breithorn's summit before attempting the daylong trek this August, said Shinichiro Saigo, business manager of the With Dreams organisation that Uchida founded to support the expedition.
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I don't know the exact amount of years but the stealth aircraft were around for quite a few years (5-10 I think) before the general public found out.
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All I keep thinking about are people dying more quickly because they bought one of these and their muscles atrophed from lack of use.
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Just great! You just know someone's gonna perfect this for industrial applications, then some shady government agency will send a mission to bring back some of those leathery eggs full of face suckers and we'll be up to our armpits in aliens.
DO WE REALLY WANT TO GO DOWN THIS ROAD?
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