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  1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10218178-1.html

    Wearable bot said to make you stronger

    by Leslie Katz

    HAL1.jpg(Credit: Cyberdyne)

    This is about the closest thing to a Superman suit we've seen. Put it on, say its creators, and the motorized Hybrid Assistive Limb can "expand and improve physical capability" up to tenfold in activities such as walking, standing, and climbing stairs.

    Through a sensor attached to the skin, "HAL" captures faint biosignals on the skin's surface that result from messages sent from the brain to muscles when a person attempts to move. A computer analyzes how much power the wearer intends to generate, then calculates the amount of torque needed to put limbs into action.

    HAL2.jpg(Credit: Cyberdyne)

    Especially noteworthy here is that the suit responds to intended motion, rather than actual motion.

    "This is what we call a 'voluntary control system' that provides movement interpreting the wearer's intention from the biosignals in advance of the actual movement," explains Japan's Cyberdyne, which will soon begin manufacturing the cybernetic suits for about $4,200 apiece, possibly making it the first such wearable device aimed at civilians.

    The company was formed by Sankai Yoshiyuki, a professor at the University of Tsukuba who is heading up research on HAL, which he says has the advantages of both robot and cyborg. Yoshiyuki says he was inspired by reading Isaac Asimov's "I Robot" as a child.

    Given the response to steroid use in professional sports, don't expect to see athletes competing in this performance-enhancing suit anytime soon. "HAL" is currently being used by people in Japan with weakened muscles and disabilities related to strokes and/or spinal cord injuries. It's also expected to report for heavy-labor duty support at factories, as well as rescue support at disaster sites.

    Cyberdyne insists that the suit won't wear you down, as the exoskeleton supports its own weight. The latest battery runs for five hours under "normal activities," which we assume does not mean mountain climbing.

  2. Yep, just in time to see Yota doing wheelies in the wheel chair and moose talking about his cheese wheel. I ended up leaving twice and coming back.

    Don't be so modest MJ, you entertained us as well by bringing attention to your middle finger. As if it wasn't talked about enough already ;)

  3. Wave a magnet at the lower left corner of a vending machine to receive a free soda.

    The Z in Jay-Z’s name stands for “Zeppidemus.”

    If you take the first letter of each word in the Monopoly board game instruction manual, they spell out an X-rated sentence.

    Reading backwards for twenty minutes burns the same amount of calories as walking a half-mile.

    The Q in Q-tips stands for “quantum,” as the small bit of cotton on the tip contains more atoms than the entire human body.

    Revolving doors were first invented as a way to keep horses out of department stores.

    Human beings and anteaters are the only animals that can snap their fingers.

    If you soak a baseball hat in coke, and then let it dry on someone’s head, over a 3-hour period the hat will shrink with skull-denting force, causing intense pain and irreparable damage.

    :???:wtf

    The average person inhales 3 pounds of spider webs in his or her lifetime.

    :puke:

  4. http://pieceofmymind.tumblr.com/post/94381934/amazing-true-facts

    Don't know if they reall are true BUT

    Amazing True Facts

    • When placed in warm milk, raisins re-plump into grapes.

    • The metal backs of iPods are made from recycled zippers.

    • Eskimos don’t believe in bridges or tunnels.

    • Every sixteen minutes, someone named Richard dies.

    • Billy Bob Thornton’s grandfather was the first person to own a television.

    • Dolphins kill more people annually than sharks and influenza combined.

    • On a dare, former President Rutherford B. Hayes declared war on Chile for 17 minutes.

    • The original title for
      Catcher in the Rye
      was
      Hey, Look, a Carousel!

    • Professionals call the top socket on an electrical outlet the “Martha,” and the bottom socket the “Jasmine.”

    • In the archives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., there are two identical snowflakes preserved in a freezer.

    • Three out of every ten nickels has been in someone’s mouth.

    • If you hold one nostril closed for 72 hours, you will slowly lose the ability to see color. (Your sight will instantly return to normal when you release your nostril.)

    • Wave a magnet at the lower left corner of a vending machine to receive a free soda.

    • The glossy paper from the backs of stickers can be used to soothe sunburn.

    • To be a train conductor, you have to cut off one of your own toes during a loyalty ritual.

    • The Z in Jay-Z’s name stands for “Zeppidemus.”

    • Jean shorts were invented three weeks prior to the invention of regular jeans.

    • Whispering instead of talking on cell phones saves significant battery power.

    • In Austria, the traditional Christmas colors are not red and greed, but purple and clear.

    • Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase “Baby Mama” in a satirical poem published in
      Poor Richard’s Almanac
      .

    • If you take the first letter of each word in the Monopoly board game instruction manual, they spell out an X-rated sentence.

    • The original name for the laptop computer was “Hinged Smart Slab.”

    • The average person inhales 3 pounds of spider webs in his or her lifetime.

    • When first introduced to the public, plastic laundry baskets cost $75 each.

    • Winnie the Pooh started out as a non-fiction account of mental illness.

    • Reading backwards for twenty minutes burns the same amount of calories as walking a half-mile.

    • The Q in Q-tips stands for “quantum,” as the small bit of cotton on the tip contains more atoms than the entire human body.

    • Revolving doors were first invented as a way to keep horses out of department stores.

    • Peru and the moon weigh the same amount.

    • Human beings and anteaters are the only animals that can snap their fingers.

    • If you soak a baseball hat in coke, and then let it dry on someone’s head, over a 3-hour period the hat will shrink with skull-denting force, causing intense pain and irreparable damage.

    • Clouds cannot travel south southwest.

    • In sign language, there are 72 ways to say “drawbridge.”

    I know, I know.... :postwhore: but at least I post interesting things, not just smiley faces...

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