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...assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight-and the wearer's-with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain to the muscle generates a detectable electrical pulse on the skin's surface. HAL's bioelectrical skin sensors pick up the pulse and send a signal to a battery-powered wireless...
...assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight - and the wearer's - with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain to the muscle generates a detectable electrical pulse on the skin's surface. HAL's bioelectrical skin sensors pick up the pulse and send a signal to a battery-powered wireless...
...anus to speak instead of fart is just one of a multitude of Oskar’s fantasized inventions. Another is a birdseed shirt, so that when wingless humans need to “make a quick escape,” birds, pecking at the seed, can lift the wearer away from danger. A third is an elevator which stays in the same place while the skyscraper it serves moves up and down so that “if you’re on the ninety-fifth floor, and a plane hits below you, the building could take...
Much more successful is a German system of inflatable air bags carried in a backpack that keeps the wearer from sinking in moving snow by increasing the body's surface area. In 70 documented cases of air-bag users being caught in avalanches in Europe, only three died. But the backpacks are rarely used in the U.S. They cost about $600, twice the price of an avalanche beacon, and they can't be carried as baggage on airlines, which won't accept the pressurized-gas canisters used to inflate the bags. Still, experts hope that will change. Says Dale Atkins...
...envelope (and slightly tongue-in-cheek) formula to help a woman determine just how high her heels can go before she topples over. Among the variables: number of years' experience wearing towering heels, time elapsed since the shoe was the height of fashion, and number of social cocktails the wearer plans to imbibe...