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Carrying a paralysed man up a mountain? No problem...
Daily Mail ^
| 1:17 AM on 2nd July 2011
| By Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 07/02/2011 10:47:18 AM PDT by Niuhuru
A Japanese man paralysed from the waist down has embarked on an ambitious trip to Normandy to climb a mountain... with the help of a cutting-edge robotic suit.
Father-of-two Seiji Uchida, 49, will be carried up Mont Saint Michel - a World Heritage site - by a companion clad in a cybernetic exoskeleton which can boost the wearer's strength tenfold.
For Mr Uchida, who lost the ability to walk 28 years ago after a car accident, reaching the picturesque abbey at the top of the mountain on the French coast is just the beginning of his trip of a lifetime.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: caraccident; cripple; france; french; invention; japan; mountain; robotic; science; suit; technology
Full Title: "Carrying a paralysed man up a mountain? No problem... when you're wearing a cyber-suit that gives you super-strength"
This is too cool.
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posted on
07/02/2011 10:47:23 AM PDT
by
Niuhuru
To: Niuhuru
Chuck Yeager could have used one of those when he crossed the Pyrenees.
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posted on
07/02/2011 10:49:43 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Niuhuru
Not just in the comic books any more.
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posted on
07/02/2011 10:57:18 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
To: Niuhuru
“Awesome! Totally awesome!!”
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posted on
07/02/2011 11:02:17 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
(Help stamp out crack-pull up your pants.)
To: Niuhuru
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posted on
07/02/2011 11:11:33 AM PDT
by
Gator113
("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
To: jmcenanly
OK .. then here it is in real life ...
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posted on
07/02/2011 11:25:17 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Niuhuru
Looks kinda gay with the other feller strapped on. Jus’ sayin’.
To: Wally_Kalbacken
not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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posted on
07/02/2011 11:57:43 AM PDT
by
Vendome
("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
To: knarf
This is the stuff that we should be creating in the US.
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posted on
07/02/2011 12:10:05 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
The potential benefits to disabled people far outweigh any considerations of the ‘gayness quotient’. If I were disabled, I would value mobility over anyone’s and everyone’s opinion of what it looked like.
Also, consider the potential for this helping medics in the battlefield. This technology will save lives.
To: Niuhuru
Is the backpack frame a part of the exoskeleton? If not, it definitely should be...
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posted on
07/02/2011 12:43:12 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(There is no Constitutional right to NOT be offended.)
To: Niuhuru
Hell, there's a LOT of stuff ... if not most (because way back when, we allowed a man to dream and do and PATENT his work), but it was stolen or sold and our manufacturing base dwindled and died.
AFAIK, if there is anything happening in MIT or elsewhere, it's for the gummint or the gummint has controlled it so heavily, it will never be.
The only great developement I know of is Big Dog
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posted on
07/02/2011 12:49:55 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Niuhuru
The current method
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posted on
07/02/2011 1:00:18 PM PDT
by
Krankor
To: knarf
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posted on
07/02/2011 5:01:52 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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