Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA / Milwaukee, WI
"Terminator" suits for the US military
This stuff is so cool. Through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant (the same group that brought you the internet), UC-Berkeley has come up with an exoskeleton for the human body that makes a 70-pound backpack feel like 5 pounds. Making it all the easier to kick someone else's ass.
Originally posted by imokruok
This stuff is so cool. Through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant (the same group that brought you the internet), UC-Berkeley has come up with an exoskeleton for the human body that makes a 70-pound backpack feel like 5 pounds. Making it all the easier to kick someone else's ass.
This is perhaps the only part of the gov't where I can say that I proudly pay taxes.
Mar-06-2004 22:23
tathi
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does it come with an Austrian accent?
Mar-06-2004 23:57
George Smiley
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: 9 Bywater Street, Chelsea, London
Great news...looks like it will be twice as easy for Americans to kill British soldiers now!
(Hope we're gonna be investin in some hi-tech body armour to counter this new threat!)
Mar-07-2004 00:36
St_Andrew
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
actually, even the swedish (sucky) defence are doing this things, they also have some kind of helmet with a lot of cool things in it. i don't know too much about it though, but it is cool as hell
Mar-07-2004 00:43
George Smiley
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: 9 Bywater Street, Chelsea, London
It does actually look quite good, but seeing as Geoff Hoon gives our troops equipment the Russians in WW2 would have turned their noses up at, I dont think we will be seeing any British terminators for some time yet!
(Not that the most highly trained soldiers in the world need terminator suits! You big bunch of pansies!)
Mar-07-2004 00:57
Spin Doctor
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It wont be long before robots are running around on battlefields, wars being decided by the best command & conquer players.
Mar-07-2004 04:04
PHALPAX
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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Boston
quote:
Originally posted by Spin Doctor
It wont be long before robots are running around on battlefields, wars being decided by the best command & conquer players.
i saw this on discovery channel...maaan you should see some of the stuff that the US Military is coming up with. Theyre coming out with helmets that work on PURE video projection...and you get a panoramic view of the environment, which will scrap the need to turning around to watch your back.
