Published on 11/ 1/2006
Remember those Spiderman comics that run in full color every Sunday in your local paper? It was there that I learnt good ol' Spidey has the proportionate strength of a spider. Apparently you can gain some semblance of spider-strength with the HAL 5 exoskeleton that will be mass produced in Japan from next year onwards. The beneficiaries of the HAL 5 would be nurses, the elderly, and disabled. This exoskeleton will be able to help nurses transfer patients effortlessly, while the latter two categories will receive newfound freedom and independence as the HAL 5 is capable of increasing your strength exponentially, enabling you to press nearly double the amount of what you normally can achieve. The guy on the right holding that huge bottle of pink cough syrup looks like an early prototype of an Imperial Storm Trooper.