This is rather cool

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:43 pm

http://tinyurl.com/bjcl5

A lot of potential applications for this thing, besides picking up chicks. The Mobile Infantry is not far off.

Post by **Pauly** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:45 pm

That is cool

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:52 pm

I'm interested in what sort of power source it has. That's one of the big problems with suits/exoskeletons like this, regular batteries are large and heavy.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:54 pm

I'm interested in how high I can jump with one of those mofos.

Post by **R00k** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:55 pm

That is pretty cool. I wonder if it's painful, having the suit lift on your arms and such.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:56 pm

These have been in development on and off since the 60s.

I'm interested in what sort of power source it has. That's one of the big problems with suits/exoskeletons like this, regular batteries are large and heavy.

I don't see a large battery anywhere on the suit.

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:58 pm

Hence my question. Don't see any cables, either.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:58 pm

R00k wrote:That is pretty cool. I wonder if it's painful, having the suit lift on your arms and such.

You could make cushions for the areas that are in contact with the body. Like a helmet. I think it'd be cool as fuck to rob a bank with a suit like that.

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:00 pm

Kracus wrote:I'm interested in how high I can jump with one of those mofos.

I wouldn't imagine very high at all. Seems to me that the actuators would have to move VERY quickly to accomplish a high jump, and when you're trying to give a large boost in lifting power, you wouldn't necessarily design it that way. I could be wrong, though.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:05 pm

Yeah that's what I'd like to see though, a machine that makes you stronger AND faster.

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:07 pm

Kracus wrote:Yeah that's what I'd like to see though, a machine that makes you stronger AND faster.

You mean no longer a 5'5" 125 lb fagg0t? :lol:

Post by **chopov** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:14 pm

Kracus wrote:
R00k wrote:.... I think it'd be cool as fuck to rob a bank with a suit like that.

Sure, and by leaving the building the batteries fail......stuck...

:icon26:

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:16 pm

GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Kracus wrote:Yeah that's what I'd like to see though, a machine that makes you stronger AND faster.
You mean no longer a 5'5" 125 lb fagg0t? :lol:

Yeah too bad they can't make a machine to make you lighter and less obnoxious.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:17 pm

Oh wait they already did!

Post by **ilum0s** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:35 pm

"It can also move on its own accord, enabling it to help elderly or handicapped people walk, developers said."

Ahaha, I read that and thought of Wallace and Gromit.

Post by **DooMer** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:44 pm

what if it starts killing people? what if?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:13 pm

Then obviously you would be piloting it.

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:14 pm

DooMer wrote:what if it starts killing people? what if?

Then we've reached our goal.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:16 pm

I can picture a soldier in a suite like this with a huge ass shield in front to protect him from incomming fire and a huge ass shoulder mounted multi use gun.

FUN!!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:17 pm

And for shits and giggle let's give him a thousand pound lead pipe to use to destroy things for fun that he can wield one handed with that suit. OWNAGE.

Post by **obsidian** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:20 am

I saw the prototype for this thing a few years ago. Pretty much the same thing except they made this version smaller and there aren't a huge mess of wires running all over the place.

It is not very fast so you definitely won't be able to jump very high if at all (due to the weight), it basically helps a person lift things that would normally be relatively heavy.

Post by **rep** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:26 am

I saw it too...

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:14 pm

ilum0s wrote:
Ahaha, I read that and thought of Wallace and Gromit.

:lol: so did i, i love that show! :icon14:

Post by **glossy** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:15 pm

Kracus wrote:I'm interested in how high I can jump with one of those mofos.

i haven't been at school for almost 5 days now, so the lack of learning requires that i flex my brain muscles with this:

if the suit enhances your jump/strength by 1.5 times (for example, it's probably lower though)

on a 70kg person:
Funaided = 200 N = ma = 70a
aunaided = 200/70 = 2.86 m/s upward

add on the 15kg of machine:
Faided = (200*1.5) N = (70+15)a
aaided = (200*1.5)/(70+15) = 300/85 = 3.53 m/s upward

the heights of your jumps become: (x is displacement/height)
formula: v^2 = u^2 + 2ax
(v = final velocity = 0; u = initial = acceleration above; a = gravitational acceleration = 9.8 m/s downward)
therefore: x = -u^2/(2a) = -u^2/(2×-9.8) = u^2/19.6
xunaided = (2.86)^2/19.6 = 0.42 meters or 1.37 feet.
xaided = (3.53)^2/19.6 = 0.64 meters or 2.09 feet.

so there you go

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:19 pm

I want one.. ^_^