• GM, NASA Build Real-Life Power Glove
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[quote] First, GM and NASA built the humanoid Robonaut. Now, the two have teamed up again to create a Human Grasp Assist device. The K-Glove, a.k.a, Robo-Glove, a.k.a. a real-life Nintendo Power Glove, gives the user the power of robots. You could be like The Wizard. In space! And not horrible! And without Fred Savage! How bad is that? NASA and GM may seem like a strange mashup until you remember that both are trying to find ways to accomplish their tasks without the use of pesky humans. This desire to push our fleshy masses out of the job of building cars or conducting experiments originally manifested itself in the form of Robonaut 2 — the creepy gold space man who looks vaguely like a Daft Punk groupie. Since public pressure and current technological limitations/cost benefits make a full transition from human workers to robots difficult in the short term, both NASA and GM are doing the smart thing by turning human workers into robots. GM says the Robo-Glove can augment human strength and reduce repetitive stress injury by grasping objects with an additional ten pounds of force. This makes holding and manipulating a tool — whether focusing a telescope mirror in space or attaching bumpers to a Malibu in a factory on earth — significantly easier. The device itself weighs only two pounds without the battery pack and, as demonstrated in the video above, won't crush another human's hand. Unless, of course, that's what you want to do. [/quote] Source: [URL]http://jalopnik.com/5892934/gm-nasa-build-real+life-power-glove?utm_source=Jalopnik+Newsletter&utm_campaign=79263ad4f3-UA-142218-9&utm_medium=email[/URL]
Now make Iron Man.
Wonder how it feels to masturbate using it?
You'd probably end up crushing your junk. Nonetheless a Power Glove like this could be useful.
For some reason i was expecting a power fist, now that would be cool.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAbsNhhw5Q[/media]
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Dear America: Please take some of your dick waving military money and put it into NASA. We're not asking for much, less than a percent of your giant over-compensation budget would do wonders for science if you gave it to NASA.
when do we get this [thumb]http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/b/bb/POWERFIST.png[/thumb]
I want because robots!
This. Changes. EVERYTHING. I'm serious though. Workers won't have to kill their spines carrying heavy objects and so on and forth.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;35134775]This. Changes. EVERYTHING. I'm serious though. Workers won't have to kill their spines carrying heavy objects and so on and forth.[/QUOTE] It's just for your hand, it's not an entire exoskeleton, this thing doesn't affect the spine in any way. It would be really useful for astronauts though, because from what I've read their spacesuits gloves are pretty uncomfortable and rigid
it does say that your hand gets an increase in about "10 pounds of strength" i'm not sure whether that means per finger or what but that's not a mind-boggling increase; the human hand is capable of much more strength than that
[QUOTE=aznz888;35135631]it does say that your hand gets an increase in about "10 pounds of strength" i'm not sure whether that means per finger or what but that's not a mind-boggling increase; the human hand is capable of much more strength than that[/QUOTE]Baby fists, baby fists.
[QUOTE=aznz888;35135631]it does say that your hand gets an increase in about "10 pounds of strength" i'm not sure whether that means per finger or what but that's not a mind-boggling increase; the human hand is capable of much more strength than that[/QUOTE] The human hand is also capable of hitting things hard enough to break it's own bones, so I'd rather not have the glove be that strong.
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omni tools.... SOOO CLOSE.
[QUOTE=Clio;35134494]when do we get this [thumb]http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/b/bb/POWERFIST.png[/thumb][/QUOTE] While power fists are awesome, I was thinking more of this [IMG]http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100925140825/fallout/images/a/a0/Fallout_New_Vegas_T-51b.jpg[/IMG]
Guys, this is a glove with a few motors on it, it's not a weapon, there's no armour on it, it doesn't project holograms, it's for holding onto things while you're in a bulky ass spacesuit.
[QUOTE=Rents;35136074]Guys, this is a glove with a few motors on it, it's not a weapon, there's no armour on it, it doesn't project holograms, it's for holding onto things while you're in a bulky ass spacesuit.[/QUOTE] Wow, it's just that? It's so bad.
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;35134807]It's just for your hand, it's not an entire exoskeleton, this thing doesn't affect the spine in any way. It would be really useful for astronauts though, because from what I've read their spacesuits gloves are pretty uncomfortable and rigid[/QUOTE] One thing that does seem to be a problem with this is that you can still have a fingernail fall off and have it prod the exposed skin where you can't reach it. You may not be able to grab much of anything if you've got a sharp piece of organic matter jabbing you in a senstive area. If anything, it might be harder to fix with all the required circuitry in the way.
i swear i remember reading this or something like this in back 09/10 [editline]14th March 2012[/editline] we even made power fap jokes
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejc9GrooSKg[/media] In seriousness, I can remember a friend of mine getting one of these.
Basically it takes some of the load off your hand. It takes less work for your muscles to do the same amount of work, because the glove is...Augmenting..your hand. I want one so bad, legitimately too. I use an Air drill at work, and that fucker gets heavy by the end of the day.
[QUOTE=Angua;35134457]For some reason i was expecting a power fist, now that would be cool.[/QUOTE] A world where we can punch tanks into oblivion isn't far off. Perhaps a version mounted with a diamond-tipped chainsaw blade should be considered as well.
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