Amentep Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 http://www.livescience.com/technology/060928_power_suit.html Thought this was an interesting story; particularly since this and the story of the "feeling" artificial limb seem so akin to science fiction. Now where's flying cars or practical jet packs...? I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Blank Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 I can see that working, but there are other methods to move somebody... It reminds me of Heinlein's gorilla-like powered-suit in Starship Troopers (the book you fools, not the movie).
Amentep Posted September 29, 2006 Author Posted September 29, 2006 I think that the idea - while they could move patients in a number of ways now (burly male nurses or two-three nurses working together) that allowing a single nurse to use a suit might make better use of existing personell resources. Its an interesting idea, but I think it'll be some time before they work the kinks out of it. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Rosbjerg Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 also it looks quite intimidating .. with wires and cordes all over the place! don't they know we want our power-suits streamlined like a pimpmobile? Fortune favors the bald.
Walsingham Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 I think this is moving entirely the wrong way. I want my granny in one of those babies, tossing chavs left and right like bowling pins. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
metadigital Posted September 30, 2006 Posted September 30, 2006 I can't wait for the nanotech version ... OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
Dark Moth Posted September 30, 2006 Posted September 30, 2006 I know what I want for Christmas. But seriously this is a great scientific endeavor. I can't wait to see where they take this.
Dark_Raven Posted September 30, 2006 Posted September 30, 2006 Power armor. They need to develop cybernetics like the Borg. But without looking that ugly. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
LoneWolf16 Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Scientific fiction gradually becomes scientific fact... I had thought that some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, for they imitated humanity so abominably. - Book of Counted Sorrows 'Cause I won't know the man that kills me and I don't know these men I kill but we all wind up on the same side 'cause ain't none of us doin' god's will. - Everlast
Dark_Raven Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
DeathScepter Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Power armor. They need to develop cybernetics like the Borg. But without looking that ugly. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well if they did that, Even then it wouldn't cure my uglyness........
LadyCrimson Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 My mother could've used one of those. Funky as it looks, at least it seems like it could eventually be something functional, rather than just a novelty. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Arkan Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Power suits, invisibility cloaks...those crazy Japanese are going to take over the world. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta
metadigital Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 My mother could've used one of those.Funky as it looks, at least it seems like it could eventually be something functional, rather than just a novelty. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> True, both my father's father and my father could have used such a suit near the end of their lives. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
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