I understand the advantage of wireless communication between his computer-controlled legs, but wouldn't be more reliable and fast and easy just to use a wire through his pants?

jespejo

2 things..

one .. I don't think he'll ever be able to fly on an airplane again.. let alone get past the front gate of an airport..

two .. I'm not a bastard like this - but we all know you can change tv channels, control your computer or even little robotic devices via cellphone bluetooth.. if someone were to 'hack' his bluetooth legs.. could they make him run around and dance? ..

SeventhExile

@JHHNY: Hehehe

cgiddings

In his shoe?

NeoPoliticus

@ANoel:

Noooo!! Where's my phone?

tdj114

@JHHNY:

LAMO, that's terrible. Even if someone managed to take control of them, he'd still figure out a way to find the person responsible in order to deliver a Marine-style beating. If not, there's always the one thing better than a pair of BT-enabled legs...Chuck Norris' number in your BT-enabled cell phone.

tdj114

@nutbastard:

Actually, Jason messed it up. It's his entire body EXCEPT for the legs that is the prosthesis.

P3nnst8r

Does it come in a Chuck Norris model?

ANoel

War and tech advances go hand-in-hand and this one's legacy will be bionic men with more than enough test subjects to pick from.

aboriginal

@P3nnst8r:

And one step closer to real-life Ghost In The Shell.

atomicafro

Op... Sorry man. I just send a document to your legs.

DeadWriter

Padme to Anikin "..other hand!"

From the spoof trailer for Ep.III.

rtwod2

I don't suppose it would have made sense to put up a picture of, you know... the leg? No? Okey Dokey.

nutbastard

I for one welcome our Bluetooth-enabled Cyborg of the Armed Services overlords.

Kaiser-Machead

i want video....also the chick is hot. that's motovation to get walkin again right there

RedBeard

@P3nnst8r: that's what I was about to say.

GizFanAlpha

Woah. Cyborg Marine. HOW FREAKING COOL. I'm sure that he'd rather still have his legs, but very cool.

Papercutninja

Let's hope he's not set to 'discoverable...'

JHHNY

^that is our moto...

this is pretty amazing

Lavallee017

One step closer to a real-life Robocop...

P3nnst8r

More human than a human...

daftrok

@strictnein: Why thank you. The pleasure was mine. Applied some Drain-o for this tube of the internets.

NNTPgrip

@strictnein:
I believe he made all those comments to be comedic. I don't know. He may have made mention when he said "Flamewar ON!!!! (all this was jokes people)".

@NNTPgrip:
Duh, you don't pay for the parts, you get forced into working for the government. Just like Stone Cold Steve Austin. Wait I think I got that messed up some where.

thechansen

@NNTPgrip: I was wondering when some idiot would turn this into a worthless flamewar.

strictnein

@strider_mt2k:

LOL, so true. I can't stand Big Red.

tdj114

Still doesn't make the stumps any less gross for his wife. Stem cell research "For The 'Regenerative' Win"... Oh, thats right, loose my limbs in a war that means absolutely nothing and come home to a highly restrictive stem cell research policy "cause it ain't christian".

I wonder how much money he'll have to spend at walmart on food after he is forced to pay for those bluetooth legs.

I'm sure after he figures out all the times his wife was cheating on him while he was over there, they'll be constant arguments that always end in her turning on the microwave to disrupt the BT signal, the legs give out, and he drops to the floor with her screaming "Look at you... pathetic!".
(could be quite comical actually)

Cue the Maury Povich episode a few months later when she pops out a kid:
"You are not the father"

I'm sorry, I'd eat a bullet before dealing with major amputation.

Flamewar ON!!!! (all this was jokes people)

NNTPgrip

Obviously not a Verizon customer or even his prosthetic leg system would be "differently-abled".

strider_mt2k

It always take war to advance medical science.
I guess they have plenty of human guinea pigs to try
out new prosthetics and procedures.

tomaartist

FREAKING AWESOME...now THIS is the kind of thing we were promised would come in the year 2000+

now if they could only finish the flying cars =(

Seiven

@SeventhExile:

1) It'd prob be the same idea of having a pacemaker. And i think there'd be a sleep mode or something that could be turned off to abide to FAA regulations until in the air.

2) I'm pretty sure there'd be some form of encryption to not allow that to happen. And i doubt anybody could tell them from traditional prosthetic legs (or prosthetics even for that matter) if u were the common passerby. Unless u have some sick friends =o)

P3nnst8r

@tdj114:
Object Kick Profile ... with smile recognition?

ANoel

@ANoel:

I wonder if they have an OBEX profile for a round-house kick to the face

tdj114

I would never trust wireless for anything like this.

Just think of the interference problem.

TheBear91

@Seiven: even if we produced the technology it would never, ever gain traction unless you could control the damage by one either falling out of the sky or slamming into a building. we'd need invisible force fields or something.

Paradise

@ANoel:

Don't be rediculous!! Verizon would never allow that profile to be enabled. It would take away revenue from their basic "stomp all over the customer" package, not to mention the optional "bend customer over and apply corporate foot to ass" upgrade.

tdj114

Awesome dude, sucks though.
Thanks for the sacrifice. I'm an original gulf war vet.

Oh and your girlfriend/wife is slamming hot.

DaveB

@DaveB: Awesome dude, sucks though.
Thanks for the sacrifice. I'm an original gulf war vet.

This post is heart felt. I think it's the best one I have read all day.

DeadWriter

Can he make his legs move if he isn't wearing them.

thehackerdude

I lost my right arm to bone cancer when I seven. i just made 25 and I would like to see them make an arm with this technology. I would like to do push ups and bench presses, and maybe cave somebody's face in during a fight!

Zan