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Power Jacket Exo-Skeleton

Posted on Dec 28, 06 12:44 PM PDT

Power Jacket Exo-Skeleton

It’s cool-looking, but don’t expect to have super-human strength with this suit. It has been designed to help partially paralyzed people in their rehabilitation. In this photo, the left arm will mimic the motion of the right arm, thanks to the synthetic muscles (the blue tubes). That, in turn, will help patients remember “the feeling of moving the arm themselves”.

The device will be tested in Japan and might be on the market by 2009 for $17000 before eventually being mass-produced at a cheaper price. [Yahoo]

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By BatmanTDK , 15/02/07 4:13 PM (CommentID #101781)


Its interesting that new innovations like this come out already 'packaged'. By this I mean no longer is it acceptable to have a prototypical jumble of wires and old bits of steel that you know will be replaced in the production unit by mylar and magnesium; the first unit has to be state of the art and look like something from the latest SciFi movie or Star Trek spinoff TV series...
Here it's all colour-coordinated and I'm sure the electronic advertising banners built into it will alreay have sponsors lined up.
Having said that, I love seeing the actual manifestation of concepts like this that have been mooted for some time as great expectations for the future - well done Panasonic!

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