Jan 01
You say that carrying the groceries is more tiring that it used to be. Perhaps you need one of the new robot exoskeleton suits which are coming out of Japan
Tsukuba University engineering professor Yoshiyuki Sankai’s HAL robot suit is apparently pretty close to production ready, with up to 20 of the bad boys to be produced by next year and 400-500 in 2008. The suits, designed to help in any number of situations where your puny human muscles are too pathetically weak to get the job done, will cost an estimated $42,000 to $59,000. If you just want to take it for a test spin, they’ll be up for rent for about $592 a month.
