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The following post of James's is off-topic for debate. :-)
But it's neat anyway. XFUT geek
Let's see, we have John Deere prototyping walker/spider timber harvesters,
and Caterpillar prototyping mechs. What's next? GM showing hovercars?
Turboprop floatplanes? (no wait, that was in this month's issue of Private
Pilot) How about a wristwatch that can double as a TV remote for when you're
in bars and want to change the channel? (no wait, that was on CNN yesterday)
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >
> > > To me that means anything man portable. (up to and including mechs :-)...
> > > see Real Life a while back where Tony and the New Girl duke it out in mechs
> > > they built out of scrap computer cases they melted down)
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Bring on the mechs!!! I would love to see a load lifter a la "Aliens" or an
> > ED-209 (under human control, of course) stomping about! Dunno if all that
> > Japanimation mech stuff is possible, but it would be neat to see.
>
> Interesting note in reference to the Aliens Power Loader - Caterpillar
> actually built it, and it actually works. Well, sort of. The footage of
> the loader lifting heavy things and walking around with them is live footage
> - what they don't show you is the cables running from the two 'shoulder
> spines' on the loader up to a crane. The crane is what keeps it from
> falling on it's face when it picks up something heavy and over-balances.
>
> There's some neat articles out there on mechanical exoskeletons, and
> technology has come a long way, but the net-net is that other things are
> still cheaper and more versatile.
>
> Mechs are still, alas, more fiction than science. :(
>
> James
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