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Terberculosis
04/14/09

In reply to Cyberdyne's HAL Exoskeleton Going On Sale For $4200 a Pop—DUPE
Is it just me or does this seem WAY too cheap?

I kinda wonder if maybe its like the kind of "robotic exoskeleton" you would order out of the back of a comic book.
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Pope John Peeps II
04/15/09

@Terberculosis: When you read a text that says "increases strength from 2 to 10 times" you should really think about what that means.

Let's say it can give you help up to 30lbs. For extremely weak people, that's a 10x improvement. For weak people that's a 2x improvement.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
04/10/09

In reply to Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200
Looks like Tron Guy 2.0...
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/10/09

In reply to Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200
Where's the disc that holds all of our info and can also be used to participate in games? And also the rod to make a light cycle?
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brobot - Beboptimus Prime
04/10/09

@BuildABearGroupMember_GitEmSte...: I don't know whether to hit you or kiss you... I was hoping that nobody else would throw in a classic Tron reference so that I could get to it first.

Well done, my friend, well done.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/10/09

@Mac4me-yours4you: It's the blue coloring!
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Lasarett
04/10/09

In reply to Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200
What's up with YouTube removing the audio from videos?
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/10/09

@Lasarett: Sometimes they get a cease and desist from the "copyright holder", so they will pull audio until they can figure out if it's fair use or not.
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Curves
04/10/09

In reply to Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200
I am very excited for the disabled folks that this will help. I will also be excited to see the YouTube videos of the rest of the people who get it then do some insanely stupid thing with it.
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GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff
11/04/08

In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
It's a shame the military and UCSD are so stupid that they haven't already thought of these moronic objections to what appears to be very beneficial tech, both for military and civilian use. (Note: Not all the objections were moronic, I'll leave it to the individual to decide which is which.)
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Curves
11/04/08

@GadgetPlay: Hey hey, I defend my moronic objections. The military NEEDS someone to think of the stuff SO stupid that the pros wont ever consider it. Its me or the conspiracy theorists, take your pick.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/04/08

In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
Hey considering we're spending so much time in the sand perhaps they need to develop a Freman stillsuit...
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Curves
11/04/08

In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
I am not a gamer, but I gather from the other comments that this has been done already in some combat game. And how did it turn out in the virtual world? I still get a bad vibe about it real time.
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Curves
11/04/08

In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
Would I sound cynical if I said fear this may be used to introduce other drugs to soldiers as well? Maybe not drugs aimed at the soldiers health and well being but something to make him/her do things that they might judge as morally wrong. I hope not....but if I was cynical, I might think that.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/04/08

@Curves: All I can say is: MKULTRA
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ceilingFANBOY
11/04/08

@Curves: Well, you're going to need drugs to go out there and fight against those Geckos and Metal Gears. Any non-medicated person would see those things and just turn the other way.
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MadCrazy
11/04/08

In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
You know what's goanna happen don't yea? If and when it comes around, they're goanna give the manufacturing contract to the lowest bidder, who are going to

invariably screw the soldiers.

"In Greed We Trust" - America
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/04/08

@MadCrazy: Wouldn't giving it to the lowest builder NOT be greedy? Giving to someone who is kicking back to the person who decides would be greedy. And realistically, the lowest bidder is not usually picked b/c if the bidder stands to lose money on a project, you have to worry about them going bankrupt 3/4 of the way through the build, which leaves you SOL.
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