http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/07/robotic.walker.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
I'm sorry but that's way too lollerlicious to make it to production.
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Nov. 7, 2008 2:37 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork
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Nov. 7, 2008 2:50 p.m. EastCoastMojo HalfDork
This thread has nothing to do with food.
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Nov. 7, 2008 3:02 p.m. Salanis SuperDork
???
If it won't allow me to do super-cyborg power-leaps, who cares?
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Nov. 7, 2008 3:09 p.m. fiat22turbo SuperDork
Um, this isn't at all what I was originally thinking this thread was going to be about.
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Nov. 7, 2008 3:17 p.m. thatsnowinnebago Reader
I second that it needs to make me jump super high and run super fast.
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Nov. 7, 2008 3:30 p.m. webba1 None
I'm debating weather or not this is REALLY cool or just another version of the segway.
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Nov. 7, 2008 4:00 p.m. Salanis SuperDork
Wait... I just read farther down the article. WTF?
Japanese robot company Cyberdyne has begun renting out in Japan a belted device called HAL, for "hybrid assistive limb," that reads brain signals to help people move about with mechanical leg braces that strap to the legs.
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Nov. 7, 2008 4:20 p.m. Jensenman UltimaDork
thatsnowinnebago wrote:
I second that it needs to make me jump super high and run super fast.
Hell, when I was a kid PF Flyers would do that. Didn't need no stinkin' robot.
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Nov. 7, 2008 6:09 p.m. SVreX UberDork
Wait 'till Larry Flynt gets a look at that thing!
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Nov. 7, 2008 8:35 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director
I have an e-mail into a friend at Honda asking when we get to try it.
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Nov. 8, 2008 7:50 a.m. 914Driver Dork
Big wedgie machine?
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Nov. 8, 2008 7:04 p.m. jl1rp New Reader
It's something different.
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Nov. 9, 2008 7:05 a.m. ignorant UberDork
Jensenman wrote:
thatsnowinnebago wrote:
I second that it needs to make me jump super high and run super fast.
Hell, when I was a kid PF Flyers would do that. Didn't need no stinkin' robot.
PF flyers are back jack..
http://www.pfflyers.com/ and now they are a coolio hipster brand
