Power Armor For the Elderly 279
aicrules writes "The question of how to care for the growing number of people in the upper age bracket has a new answer - assistive power armor for the elderly." From the article: "The sleek, high-tech get-up looks like a white suit of armor. It straps onto a person's arms, legs and back and is equipped with a computer, motors and sensors that detect electric nerve signals transmitted from the brain when a person tries to move his limbs. When the sensors detect the nerve signals, the computer starts up the relevant motors to assist the person's motions. Sankai says the suit, dubbed 'Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) 5,' can let a person who can barely do an 176-pound leg press handle 397 pounds."
Please, put down your weapon (Score:5, Funny)
Oh noes! (Score:2, Funny)
What has happened to Slashdot? (Score:2, Funny)
For Christ's sake, it looks like the starting point for a storm trooper costume. What's this "white suit of armor" nonsense?
This is so cool (Score:3, Funny)
Is anyone else thinking super soldiers? (Score:4, Funny)
SOmeone has to say it... (Score:2, Funny)
Sex performance (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Please, put down your weapon (Score:4, Funny)
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
Wait... I've heard that one before.. where was it....
OH YEAH, ON /, a few weeks ago. About the same story.
DUPE!
At what point is an artcle restating a previous article's content not a dupe? How far must it be removed to still be considered news?
Sounds good... (Score:4, Funny)
I don't even know why the scientists make them! (Score:2, Funny)
All you need... (Score:3, Funny)
"Get away from her you BITCH!"
HAL-5 ?? (Score:4, Funny)
Just in time.... (Score:5, Funny)
They could combine the Terminator/RoboCop story line:
Prime Directives:
1. Get off my lawn!
2. Protect the elderly.
3. Uphold Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security.
Grandpa 5 (Score:2, Funny)
Power Amor! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sex performance (Score:1, Funny)
Called the strap-on dildo.
Never goes soft.
Can be had with built in vibrator and other options.
Not sure how a man would get pleasure while wearing a strap on, but it'll handle the woman's needs quite nicely, just ask any lesbian.
Re:Please, put down your weapon (Score:3, Funny)
HAL? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Please, put down your weapon (Score:3, Funny)
Bidder 1: 20,000 Quatloos that the Sun won't explode
Bidder 2: I'll match and raise you 10K Quatloos that he's one of those freaks that got his brains spooned into a Macintosh aquarium.
Isaac Asimov's new book... (Score:3, Funny)
The gripping anthology of questions posed in story format regarding the nature of octogenerianism in the face of the mechanical man: what does it truly mean to be Abraham Simpson? Similar to the Turing Problem, if you construct a black box where one inserts apple and receieve mush, at what point can one fool a double blind surveyor as to which is the machine-octogenarian and which is the Real McCoy.
Re:Is anyone else thinking super soldiers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is anyone else thinking super soldiers? (Score:2, Funny)
You, Sir, are wrong, and have obviously never played the docu-game Splinter Cell.