muscles
Robots
These Carbon Nanotube Muscles Are 30 Times Stronger Than Human Muscles
2:30PM Brian Lam | These next gen carbon nanotube muscles have “diamond-like” stiffness side to side, but are as flexible as rubber when moved perpendicularly. When voltage is applied to the structures, they contract with a pulling force 30 times the force per unit of human muscles. More »
Science
Magic Mirror Shows Your Bones and Muscles In Real Time
11:20PM Jesus Diaz | Feeble people of the world, rejoice, because the “magic mirror” will show your inner anatomy, demonstrating that below all my wine-and-tapas-induced bag of jell-o fat, there are some bones and muscles. Or so I think. More »
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Spandex? Ewww. Anatomical Muscle Suit? Hot.
12:02AM Mark Wilson | Even the people who should be wearing spandex really shouldn’t be wearing spandex, if you know what I mean. But a skin tight suit that depicts your inner muscle tissue? OK! More »
Gadgets
Five Axis Mechanical Core Muscle Trainer Is Wild Bull Riding Fun for the Older Sect
3:30AM Jack Loftus | It turns out the wet t-shirt-wearing girls riding those mechanical bulls at the local bar were actually exercising. No lie, as you can see with this Five Axis Core Muscle Trainer, ripped from the everlasting kitsch-ridden pages of Hammacher Schlemmer. The saddle tilts left and right, up and down, and throws in a few twists for good measure. All the while the motions target your “core muscles,” which are worked as your body attempts to regain equilibrium. The whole idea of a rocking, jocking mechanical exercise bull for the home actually sounds kind of exciting, until you realise this piece of equipment was designed with the senior bull rider in mind. And yes, those are stirrups. More »
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Multigym-in-a-Closet Keeps Your Fitness Under Wraps
8:45PM Gizmodo US Edition | Gym bunnies amongst you might be interested in the Murphy Gym, a shallow cupboard full of the kind of equipment you need to look like a condom stuffed with walnuts—marbled walnuts if you are either a hunk of Kobe beef, or if you like popping S.T.E.Roids as if they were M&Ms. I’m also guessing that this little gym-in-a-closet might be appealing to pervy modders out there, who could swap the chest expander for something even more black and rubbery. And for those of you who like a nice bit of bedroom farce, this could be the cupboard that the really thin lover, clad in black polo neck and jeans, hides in when his lady friend’s husband returns home from work early. [Apartment Therapy] More »
Gadgets
Do You Want to Know What Muscles Sound Like?
8:45PM Gizmodo US Edition | Cameron, a student at Cornell University, built an analogue amp/feedback system, and then wired his muscles up to the thing via electrodes. It’s kind of like a Theramin, but more weird. A doctor in the comments suggests fitting different voltages to each of the twelve muscles in the arm to vary the sound. I suggest shaving your whole body, covering yourself with electrodes, pantsing the analogue amp and then going for a run. Cacophony rules. [Music Thing] More »
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