wow! that would be so awesome to have!

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Yup, yup!

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I thought of you when I saw that article, but wasn't really impressed by the looks of the thing. Do you have the upper-body strength required for the balancing part? If not they'd need to make a modified version.

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My weight is more my concern. I need to drop (at least) 100lbs. before I could think about using one of those. That said, if I shed the pounds, I could probably hold my upper body in position.

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I wonder what kind of power system they're using. The american exo-frame uses a gas motor, and it's fucking loud, 'course it's intended for soldiers to be able to carry more weight, not to enable handicapped to walk inside buildings.

There are two in japan, and one in south korea, but I'm not sure if they can be operated by someone without some lower-body control, at the moment they seem to be aiming for fragile disabled and elderly.

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Yeah, I know about one of those at least, the HAL Suit. There's another one in the works at Berkeley, iirc. The future's look rather chrome-plated these days.

As for power, I would imagine whatever Segways use. I saw an article the other day about scientists using bacteria to make batteries. Maybe it'll one day be a bio-fueled exo-suit.

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bah. the shine has worn off lithium-polymer batteries for me. Given that the thing has to balance anyway, it should use gyro-ed flywheels. It's not like the thing has to turn quickly or anything.

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Neat!

...wait, you're just going to use this to kick people's asses fight crime, aren't you? ._.

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Step 1: Get mechanized exo-suit.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Rule world.

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Wait..."fight" crime? Something tells me you have the wrong verb in there.

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It appears to be JewTech®.

Shall I put in a good word?

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a sheynem dank

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