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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pugnate on Sunday, April 12, 2009, 03:12:30 PM
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10x your normal strength enabling exosuit?
http://www.dailytech.com/HAL+Mech+Suit+Hits+Production+To+Increase+Human+Strength+Tenfold/article14822.htm
It isn't a joke. It is all over the news. Awesome stuff:
They say this is just the beginning. In ten years, these things will be less bulky, more mobile, and even more powerful.
God bless Japan.
I heard they are working on a giant raping tentacle monster next.
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Wow! Think of the application man!
Soon kids with muscular dystrophy may have the chance to run around play like other kids! People with muscular issues will have the ability to get stuff done!
And supersoldiers may become a reality.
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Well it looks like some governments have already placed large orders to aid their disaster relief teams.
They just need to make jet packs a reality, and refine both that and this, and we may very well be ready for the alien invasion.
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Well it looks like some governments have already placed large orders to aid their disaster relief teams.
They just need to make jet packs a reality, and refine both that and this, and we may very well be ready for the alien invasion.
Dude, this could make some of our favourite childhood cartoons plausible! hehe
Next step Heavy Gear!
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There was an article a few weeks ago about Honda making something similar. You put on this exoskeleton thing which let you lift much more weight. It was intended to keep factory workers working into old age in an attempt to unfuck Japan's demographic problem.
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I've never understood the concept of how this would work. I mean, how does the suit offer aid if it doesn't know what to do? Your brain doesn't say "arms go forward" to the suit directly, so how does it interpret your movement and then render aid?
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I've never understood the concept of how this would work. I mean, how does the suit offer aid if it doesn't know what to do? Your brain doesn't say "arms go forward" to the suit directly, so how does it interpret your movement and then render aid?
I think you move and it supports your movement rather than act on its own. It's not a neuro-enhancer, so it doesn't attach to your nervous system, it's all physics and leverage.
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Yeah, I just don't understand how that works. How does something mobile like that understand where to apply force to help you do something? Or did I totally glance over the article way too fast and it isn't powered or motorized in any way and it's more like a brace or something?
Meh. I don't get it. And I'm too tired to really read the article at this point.
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Like Xessive said, I think it has to do with physics. The strength is coming from the mechanics or something. If I were Japanese, I'd understand better.
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It's a machine that gets its inputs from your movements. Its job is to mimic the input with amplified strength. It's a simple concept. The implementation details scare the hell out of me. A bug or malfunction might turn you into hamburger.
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It's a machine that gets its inputs from your movements. Its job is to mimic the input with amplified strength. It's a simple concept. The implementation details scare the hell out of me. A bug or malfunction might turn you into hamburger.
Oh God, imagine if it rotates the other way! "Woah, my elbows don't bend tha--AAAAARGHH!!"
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Oh God, imagine if it rotates the other way! "Woah, my elbows don't bend tha--AAAAARGHH!!"
hahaha! either way, this thing's awesome. can't wait to see what the next generations of this tech end up looking like. once i make my millions, i'm so buying one.
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But I don't understand that. If you're lifting something really fucking heavy, say, and the machine needs input from your movement in order to power and do anything, wouldn't that mean the movement would need begin under your own power? And if you can't lift something, how the hell is this thing going to help if it never gets that initial impulse that says "lift"?
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But I don't understand that. If you're lifting something really fucking heavy, say, and the machine needs input from your movement in order to power and do anything, wouldn't that mean the movement would need begin under your own power? And if you can't lift something, how the hell is this thing going to help if it never gets that initial impulse that says "lift"?
Think of how a pulley can make something easier to lift; it doesn't enhance your strength it just redirects the force to the angle so you require less effort.
I'm sure the nextgen stuff will look sleeker. Jetpacks would be an awesome addition :D Before we know it Iron Man can be real!
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Sure, I get that, but... this is nothing like a pulley, and the angles are the same angles your body uses.
I should really just give up and go read the article, shouldn't I?
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Sure, I get that, but... this is nothing like a pulley, and the angles are the same angles your body uses.
I should really just give up and go read the article, shouldn't I?
Haha might help :P
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Sure, I get that, but... this is nothing like a pulley, and the angles are the same angles your body uses.
I should really just give up and go read the article, shouldn't I?
When you push the gas pedal in your car, you're not really moving the car forward with your foot either. :)
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But the gas pedal doesn't weigh 500 pounds.
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From what I read, it just boosts where the strength comes from or something... like the hip motion. I am not sure... when you read the thing explain it to us Que.
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But the gas pedal doesn't weigh 500 pounds.
There must be a way to sense pressure applied by the human being in all directions, like the gas pedal senses pressure from your foot. That's what I was trying to get at.
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There must, I just can't understand how that would work, again, when lifting something heavy.
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There must, I just can't understand how that would work, again, when lifting something heavy.
The suit takes the pressure, you just control it. Think of as a framework around your body. Kinda like the loading mecha in Alien, I know it's fictional but it's similar.
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You guys don't seem to quite grasp what it is that confuses me. I get the concept, but the Alien contraption had controls. Your own limbs wouldn't really be part of the apparatus, they'd only control it separately from inside the framework. This other thing just looks like an exoskeleton, where your own hands would physically be holding something, and the suit is just supposed to reinforce that, not do it for you as an extension of yourself. It just seems like a fundamental paradox to have it require input from you first. The only way I can see it working is reading muscle contractions or something. Or getting electric signals and interpreting them, though I can't imagine that working reliably.
Fuck it. I'm reading the article. I just hope after all this it actually says how the thing works, or I'm going to go crazy every time I see this thread.
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Aha! We have answers. The machine doesn't detect movement on your part. In fact, it's actually hooked up to your muscles and, no kidding, detects electric signals to activate. Wild.
The suit has special pads which attach to muscles and detect electrical signals form the brain. As the muscle moves, so does the suit, augmenting the power of movements. Special care is taken to respect the range of motion and not go too fast, so as not to damage delicate tendons, ligaments, and bones.
Well, my mind is blown. I'll tell you what, though, you'd never get me into one of those things until the tech has had a few dozen years to prove itself.
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holy shit, that's awesome. Super penis here i come! Just in time too.....
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holy shit, that's awesome. Super penis here i come! Just in time too.....
Haha believe it or not the "cyborg" penis and other penile enhancemants (and implants) have been around for years! It was a priority in the fields of robotics and prosthetics :P
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I am disturbed that you know this. :P :P
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I am disturbed that you know this. :P :P
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