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New Power Suit Amplifies Human Strength Capacity For Evil NEW YORK—Engineers in Japan are perfecting a wearable power suit that amplifies human strength to help lift hospital patients or heavy objects villainy. Driven by portable batteries, micro air pumps and small body sensors that pick up even the slightest muscle twitch, the Stand-Alone Wearable Power Assist Suit is designed to help nursing home workers costumed psycopaths lift patients of up to 180 pounds armored trucks while cutting the amount of strength required in half, project researcher Hirokazu Noborisaka told LiveScience today. At Wired Magazine’s NextFest new-technology forum here, researchers demonstrated walking ripping bank vaults open and lifting weights crushing skulls in the 66-pound suit, which was developed at the High-Tech Research Center of Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of Technology Revenge. “When I wear it, I don’t feel that it’s heavy at all any distinction between right and wrong,” said project team member Hiroe Tsukui after stepping out of the power suit. “The sensors can tell the muscle power needed to lift an object me who deserves to die.” A network of sensors track exert malevolent control over the wearer’s upper arms and legs and waist-muscle activity, then relay the data to an onboard microcomputer that regulates air flow into a series of inflatable cuffs which expand to amplify lifting strength. The suit supports its own weight and carries a battery lifetime of about 30 minutes. “We think that 30 minutes is enough time to lift a patient from one place to another destroy a large city,” said Noborisaka, who engineered the sensor computing system used in the suit, adding that future versions could help the elderly or disabled walk stomp those who oppose them. The current model—known as the 2nd Stand-Alone Power Assist Suit—is stronger and more compact than its predecessor, researchers said. Designer Mineo Ishii said that the next step is to further reduce the size of the power assist suit to make it more practical for use by hospital staff ordinary thugs. “It needs to be more flexible for more easy movement,” Ishii said, adding that a protective cover that shrouds the suit’s sensitive or sharp areas is also required. via hatethefuture

New Power Suit Amplifies Human Strength Capacity For Evil

NEW YORK—Engineers in Japan are perfecting a wearable power suit that amplifies human strength to help lift hospital patients or heavy objects villainy.

Driven by portable batteries, micro air pumps and small body sensors that pick up even the slightest muscle twitch, the Stand-Alone Wearable Power Assist Suit is designed to help nursing home workers costumed psycopaths lift patients of up to 180 pounds armored trucks while cutting the amount of strength required in half, project researcher Hirokazu Noborisaka told LiveScience today.

At Wired Magazine’s NextFest new-technology forum here, researchers demonstrated walking ripping bank vaults open and lifting weights crushing skulls in the 66-pound suit, which was developed at the High-Tech Research Center of Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of Technology Revenge.

“When I wear it, I don’t feel that it’s heavy at all any distinction between right and wrong,” said project team member Hiroe Tsukui after stepping out of the power suit. “The sensors can tell the muscle power needed to lift an object me who deserves to die.”

A network of sensors track exert malevolent control over the wearer’s upper arms and legs and waist-muscle activity, then relay the data to an onboard microcomputer that regulates air flow into a series of inflatable cuffs which expand to amplify lifting strength. The suit supports its own weight and carries a battery lifetime of about 30 minutes.

“We think that 30 minutes is enough time to lift a patient from one place to another destroy a large city,” said Noborisaka, who engineered the sensor computing system used in the suit, adding that future versions could help the elderly or disabled walk stomp those who oppose them.

The current model—known as the 2nd Stand-Alone Power Assist Suit—is stronger and more compact than its predecessor, researchers said.

Designer Mineo Ishii said that the next step is to further reduce the size of the power assist suit to make it more practical for use by hospital staff ordinary thugs.

“It needs to be more flexible for more easy movement,” Ishii said, adding that a protective cover that shrouds the suit’s sensitive or sharp areas is also required.

via hatethefuture

27 May 2009 • reblog: hatethefuture • exoskeleton