Now, thanks to a Japanese company called Cyberdyne, you can rent your very own powered exoskeleton from as little as $1,000 a month. The company will be producing up to 500 of the things before the year's out, so don't be surprised if you start seeing people leaping from building to building and chucking cars around. Okay, so it probably won't be quite that cool, but a 2-10 times increase in strength is still pretty damn cool. Personally, though, I'm waiting until they can graft some kind of synthetic muscle tissue straight onto my skeleton (which will be made of Titanium and carbon nanotubes).

EDIT: More info available here.

Seriously. If I hear one more thing about 2012, I'm reasonably certain I'm going to go insane. The Mayans were primitive folk who didn't know what a star was, and it's absurd to think that they had any kind of special knowledge. I'm sure lots of interesting and impressive things are going to happen in 2012, but the end of the world is not one of them and, if you think it is, you're an idiot.