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Design
Japanese Anti-Flu Suit Lets You Get Sneezed On With Impunity
3:40AM Adam Frucci | A Japanese company called Haruyama Trading Co. has developed a suit that supposedly protects the wearer from the H1N1 hysteria virus. Finally! More »
Robots
HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits The Streets Of Tokyo
9:15PM Danny Allen | Remember that HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) exoskeleton from the real-life Cyberdyne? Ahead of plans to rent the suit to those with mobility issues (or Iron Man fantasies), it’s now being tested on the streets of Tokyo. Here’s the video. More »
Gadgets
Japanese Ice Suit Equips Ice Packs For Hot Tokyo Summers, Salarymen Now Expected To Give 110% Effort
9:30AM Adrian Covert | This “New Ice Suit” has integrated jacket icepacks, designed to alleviate some of the discomfort of Japanese salarymen who have to walking around scorching Japan streets during the summer. Looks like this newfangled ice technology isn’t just for elite-level athletes anymore! More »
Robots
Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200
7:57PM John Herrman | Products like the Human Assistive Limb exoskeleton have a frustrating tendency to remain in the labs and universities that spawned them, usually for reasons of impracticality or cost. But this one is going mainstream. More »
Science
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 »
Design
Sears is Recycling Your Empty Mountain Dew Bottles Into Fine Tailored Suits
1:00PM Adrian Covert | OK, the “fine tailored” part may or may not be an exaggeration on my part, but the fact that Sears is recycling plastic bottles into wearable business suits is no tall tale. More »
Gadgets
Barack Obama’s Bulletproof Inaugural Suit
6:00AM John Mahoney | Jesse Jackson choked on his sandwich on CNN when Barack got out of the Beast and walked in the open, unprotected air. Thankfully, the reverend could have relaxed: BHO was wearing a bullet-resistant suit. More »
Science
US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
10:20PM John Herrman | The Office of Naval Research just threw a $US1.6m grant at some UCSD researchers, to be used to build a “field hospital on a chip”. The system will monitor a few biomarkers for deviations from safe levels, at which point it will automatically medicate its wearer. While the military hopes that such a device could provide first aid to wounded soldiers, the technology could also find plenty of practical uses in medicine, especially for doling out insulin to diabetics or anesthetic to chronic pain sufferers. More »
Gadgets
AOKI Deoderising Suits Keep Sweaty Types Tolerable At The Office
10:00AM Sean Fallon | You know that sweaty guy who always comes into work smelling like an armpit? Yeah, you know who I’m talking about–and if you don’t, “that guy” is probably you. Thanks to AOKI, you won’t have to tolerate the funny looks, wrinkled noses and giggle-laden whispers of your co-workers any longer. The translation is shaky, but their new line of deodorising suits claim to absorb sweat, suck out odour and provide antibacterial protection using the power of silver ions. They also run about US$370 on sale. Unfortunately, if you don’t live in Japan you will just have to continue being the smelly office outcast. [Rakuten via Crunchgear] More »
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