16 May 2008 @ 09:02 am
Cybergear  
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.
 
 
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Allan[info]albowsmit on May 16th, 2008 09:47 am (UTC)
Will it come with the T-800, or the T-X?
[info]mangoflush on May 16th, 2008 02:38 pm (UTC)
$1,000 to look totally awesome for a month?

Hmm.
Dave[info]d_swordfish on May 16th, 2008 10:54 pm (UTC)
How long before we shed these frail fleshy forms and inhabit our own super robot bodies?

That would be, and there is no other word for it, awesome.
(Anonymous) on May 17th, 2008 05:10 pm (UTC)
do some exercise to 'graft' more 'muscle tissue' onto your 'skeleton'.

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Laurie Pycroft[info]sqrrl101 on May 17th, 2008 09:44 pm (UTC)
Why bother when it'd take me years of to build up a body that can lift any serious amount of weight, whereas synthetic muscles would add massive amounts of lifting power, instantly?