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Ninjas don't wear sweatshirts. Yoshiyuki Ogata, a Tokyo designer whose street fashion is stocked in upscale L.A. and London boutiques, was living in Seattle in the 1990s when he discovered a peculiar phenomenon. His friends overseas, Americans as well as other nationalities, were proud of their roots, while his Japanese mates tended to denigrate their own culture and idolize anything foreign. Ogata couldn't understand the impulse. Yes, he had traveled the world and had majored in international business. But Ogata had a black belt in karate. He loved the exquisite craftsmanship of Japan's artisans. So when...
Walk Man Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba Availability: Near future, $14,000-$19,000 To Learn More: sanlab.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp Enter ... Mecha-Grandma! Japanese researchers have developed a robotic exoskeleton to help the elderly and disabled walk and even lift heavy objects like the jug of water above. It's called the Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL. (The inventor has obviously never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Its brain is a computer (housed in a backpack) that learns to mimic the wearer's gait and posture; bioelectric sensors pick up signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles...
...NASA, and five of them have flown space-shuttle missions (including the flight of Discovery in August that marked the first shuttle mission since Columbia disintegrated upon reentry in 2003). At Tsukuba Space Center, JAXA's main campus, located about a 40-minute train ride northeast of Tokyo, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa and his team were recently putting the finishing touches on Japan's next small step. In a gigantic clean room the size of a warehouse, Hasegawa oversees the assembly of the $3.25 billion Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), Japan's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS). After the module tubes...
...Bionics are no longer the preserve of the Six Million Dollar Man: soon the elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid 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...
...wonder Bionics are no longer the preserve of the Six Million Dollar Man: soon the elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid 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...