Why would you do that, Earth to the poor Japan?! Look how cool they are ...
Wonder if I could build one.
[QUOTE=H@STE;28597040]Damn thought this was going to be S.T.A.L.K.E.R[/QUOTE]
['It is' Nuclear Meltdown joke here]
[QUOTE=johan_sm;28593725]Very cool. Hopefully he didn't die in the earthquake[/QUOTE]
I felt like shooting myself after I laughed.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28598276]Does this mean we can have space marines?
Fuck civil war re-enactments, let's have Gears of War and Warhammer re-enactments![/QUOTE]
Actually, the Japanese version is ill suited for such ideas. Its apparatus looks more like SCVs from Starcraft.
Meanwhile in Japan...
will they use this to help pry people out of cars and lift rubble in this disaster
[QUOTE=Treybuchet;28611251]will they use this to help pry people out of cars and lift rubble in this disaster[/QUOTE]
No, this suit is unpowered. There is, however the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) unit built by Cyberdine Industries. I'm not kidding.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy7ipDAyXtI[/media]
[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/iron-man-robot-suit-cyber_n_186238.html]Huffington Post[/url]
They also contemplated making them for emergency services (easily lift massive chunks of debris from collapsed buildings, venture into ever-more-dangerous situations, etc). Their website seems to be down.
[url]www.cyberdyne.jp/english/[/url]
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