On 10/6/09 9:00 AM, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
One of the more time honored and venerable staples of science fiction,
presented most effectively in Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" is
powered armor - in effect, turning the infantry into mobile tanks. In
fact, the one reason Verhoeven's movie "Starship Troopers" was such a
bomb with scifi fans, quite beyond the *******ization of Heinlein's
main story line, was the lack of powered armor. "Alien" was another
exoskeleton/powered armor used by Ripley to defeat the Alien.

Well, guess what?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/25/s...ening-reality/

WHOO HOO!!


Yawn. Powered armor. Yawn.

Starship Troopers, the movie, was a mindless fun shoot-em-up with great
bugs and...


http://tinyurl.com/ydohnx2

What the hell were you looking at?


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Idiots All

On Oct 6, 9:13*am, H the K wrote:
On 10/6/09 9:00 AM, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

One of the more time honored and venerable staples of science fiction,
presented most effectively in Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" is
powered armor - in effect, turning the infantry into mobile tanks. *In
fact, the one reason Verhoeven's movie "Starship Troopers" was such a
bomb with scifi fans, quite beyond the *******ization of Heinlein's
main story line, was the lack of powered armor. *"Alien" was another
exoskeleton/powered armor used by Ripley to defeat the Alien.

Well, guess what?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/25/s...keleton-become...

WHOO HOO!!

Yawn. Powered armor. Yawn.

Starship Troopers, the movie, was a mindless fun shoot-em-up with great
bugs and...

http://tinyurl.com/ydohnx2

What the hell were you looking at?

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Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger:
Idiots All

I saw a video of something more interesting, a sort of device that
helps people with weak muscles such as from Parkinsons walk and climb
stairs. It can provide either a gentle push to cause the person to
walk on cue (with Parkinsons the cue from the brain gets scrambled) or
can provide a small amount of muscle boost too. It was being
developed by Honda and I would expect to see it on the market in 5
years considering the aging Boomer population.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 07:14:12 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

I saw a video of something more interesting, a sort of device that
helps people with weak muscles such as from Parkinsons walk and climb
stairs. It can provide either a gentle push to cause the person to
walk on cue (with Parkinsons the cue from the brain gets scrambled) or
can provide a small amount of muscle boost too. It was being
developed by Honda and I would expect to see it on the market in 5
years considering the aging Boomer population.

Yep - a Doug Kamen invention I believe. He's advanced that to
prosthetic limbs and hands. Saw something on the news about his arm -
the guy, double amputee at the shoulder, could pick a grape off a
bunch, peel a tomato - pretty amazing stuff.