New Exoskeleton Will Give Soldiers Super-Human Power

[sayshi]

This sounds pretty swell. Or scary

A nanotechnologist in Texas has come up with a way of producing a super-fabric with 100 times the strength of human muscle. The Pentagon now wants him to develop a super-suit for its soldiers.


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Newsweek reports that Baughman now has a grant from the Pentagon to develop an exoskeleton for the US army. It is hoped that a suit made out of this type of material could allow GIs to jump over high barriers and transport heavy objects quickly and over long distances. The soldiers would be protected by another nano product -- a bullet-proof carbon fabric that would be a lot lighter and much stronger than the current bullet-proof vests.


Give new meaning to when i tell you to jump....you say "how high!!!!"

It's not long story. Very interesting.

[Riz]

http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/med...11-2007_a.html

Similar, yet different.

Sounds like the nanotech one would be better though, increasing physical abilities other than just providing protection.

[TheJESTERJ]

Woah, I knew they were developing a new stealth jet in Texas, but this? Freakin' sweet.

[Deimos]

my cpu is a neural net processor, a learning computer

[TheSinter]

well the way i look at it is that this is going to be good and bad like most things. ...it will be used to help aid soldiers in war, help disabled people be fully functional"

but it will be used for bad..... discovery had segmate on it... i bet you could find it on you tube


if you have seen the game crysis: then you know that the main charecter has a nano suit...see people want be superhuman but the suit will make then do superhuman things.

the future is going to be cool and i can't wait for it to come.

[power_gamer_6]

Dudes!
This is like the Mark V and VI suits in the Halo series!!
Augmenting the soldiers' physical abilities, endurance, etc.
Sounds friggin sweet.