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.

Check out the pics and movies here: http://me.berkeley.edu/hel/bleex.htm

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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. Check out the pics and movies here: http://me.berkeley.edu/hel/bleex.htm

This is perhaps the only part of the gov't where I can say that I proudly pay taxes.

does it come with an Austrian accent?

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!)

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

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!)

It wont be long before robots are running around on battlefields, wars being decided by the best command & conquer players.

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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 knew those days spent on C&C would pay off

is it bulletproof?

I wonder if that'll be offered to school students

Haha that might help.

Not me, mine backpacks only say, 10 lbs or so.

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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.

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