Did technology create the next super man!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately folks, this past week I have been focusing on 4 different tests in most of my classes, so I am gonna try and pump out a few cool articles before weeks end to try and catch up with the pace I tried to set~

On that note lets get down to it with this very interesting article I found on robotics etc. Rest assured all things can have a place in the wonderful of database you just have to have a creative mind and logic when it comes to explaining it!

Today I would to present a new power suit that amplifies human strength. Wow it really can be like superman....one day maybe. But anyways this suit developed by some enginneers in Japan is being perfected and hope to begin its use in hospitals and nursing homes. But as you can probably guess such a use won't stop there. I am sure this marvelous piece of tech can be used in many different ways. Soilders on the battlefield, construction work, farming are just some of the many ideas that sprang to my head.

This suit is driven by portable batteries, small body senors and micro air pumps. As I stated about helping hospital workers one wearing a perfected version of this suit could easily lift a patient at a suggested weight of 180 pounds with half the effort of lifting someone that weighs that much. Imagine this...your small petite in stature and usually never would be able to lift 180 pounds much less even weight that much, but perhaps you could manage to lift 90 pounds with some help. Well if you had perhaps two people each wearing this suit each of you lifting this 180 pound person would literally be splitting the weight in half and using half the strength to do it, in essense you could be lifting 90 pounds instead of the 80 pounds. Talk about taking some of the slack off. The only draw back I see is that the suit itself in its current state weights about 66 pounds. But I am sure with future technology advancements everyday the weight of the suit will drop while its power increased. One of the testers comment in saying "When I wear it, I don't feel that it's heavy at all," He also commented in saying that "The sensors can tell the muscle power needed to lift an object."

Now that being said about the sensors we think to ourselfs sensors store information taken from the host. When your muscles react to begin lifting the sensors read this information into the suit where then the suit begins to adjust the power needed to lift. In a way its almost as if the suit stores the calculated strength to a table where it then references how much power is in turn needed to help its host lift the desired item. This is sort of like a database holding information where you then query the suits sophisticated database to attain the desired result. I believe that is a good way to explaing exactly how this suit can relate to database.

For those not 100% sure of how this suit works I will try and elaborate as best as possible. A network of senors track the limbs of the host then relay any and all data to the onbaord microchip. Once that is done the microchip regulates air flow into the micro air pumps where it then expands to give the desired lifting. To note an earlier comment about the suit weighing 66 pounds, to elaborate more the suit is self sustaining which means it can support its own weight and still having a battery support lift of about 30 minutes. Future versions of this suit are still in progress to help it overall perform and look better with more flexibility and looks.

This suit looks and seems amazing to me, with the right imagination and a little work this suit can go far beyond its intended target and reach new heights in not only supplementing ones own strenght but perhaps to help those rehabilate damaged limbs or even help those who lost the ability to walk on their own. I am very interested to see how this suit evolves in our technologically inclined world and perhaps one day we all can mimic what one would call true super human strength!

All credit etc. go to the author of this article from the article link provided below~
http://www.livescience.com/technology/060928_power_suit.html