All we need is Black Sabbath's Iron Man playing in the background!
Winners of the Defense Advance Projects Agency (DARPA) exoskeleton program, the Sarcos suit promises to allow soldiers to “run faster,leap further and carry more.” The system uses dozens of tiny servo motors to do the job of moving hydraulic fluid via high pressure lines to servo valves on each joint. Test users have been able to easily lift hundreds of pounds with hundreds of reps, perform repetitive tasks like loading and unloading heavy equipment, even walk dozens of miles uphill, all by mimicking movements with super human strength and with very little fatigue for the man inside the suit.
The ExoSkeleton has been in development for six years and in the future, Sarcos hopes to create an autonomous model which can operate on its own after the user gets out to perform a separate task.
And not only can the Sarcos Exoskelton be of benefit on the battle field, but it could also help in the civilian world. Imagine rescue workers hoping into an exoskeleton to remove debris from a collapsed building, or a partially disabled patient being able to live a normal life with the help of an exoskeleton to handle the work his legs can no longer do.
US Army testing for the Sarcos suit begins early next year.

Here is a video of the suit in action: Video Fix: Super Suit Gets Serious | Danger Room from Wired.com

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crap - what do you do if the batteries run low in battle, be a sitting duck to wait for its slug?!! just some more crap that will break right in that moment you need it the most.

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you can freely step in and out of it, besides, the money they are spending on this considered, they wont release it until its virtually perfected.

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they should cut this program, leave it to the industry and rather use the money for some new armor and rifles!

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We should be dropping food instead of bombs. It pisses off fewer people.

or we could mix 'n' match the two! lol

world food aid has ruined the 3.rd world farmers, and where that has left some Monsanto comes in to finish em of with bt-seeds. the best would be for those if we would stop subsidizing crops and pay the fair price it takes to produce the food.

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that makes sense to me

well it is the best aid we can give them - the aid to help themselves because now we help ourselves with foreign aid programs as these programs buy goods produces for example in the US as pumps, seeds, light farm machinery and such and take them to those 3rd. world countries to "help" them.
What we miss by doing so is that the food aid will ruin the local farmer as he won't sell his goods anymore due to the competition we produce by either free food or the resale of these of the food - matter of fact is that most of the food is sold again to the people and not even given away for free, those local governments, most some sort of dictatorship and all corrupt what ever they are, sell the aid given to them by UN and government programs from the industrial nations.

If we want to help such nations to produce their own goods we can support them by opening our markets for then, cutting subsidise for our industries (which harm us equally too!) and give them "free" credits for programs to push low credit investments that lead to an industry and push economical change in the region - such microcredits exist already today but are not granted by the world bank but by small progressive Christian banks or Grameen Bank in Bangladesh - the founder of this, Professor Muhammad Yunus, won the nobel prize for his revolutionizing idea. Such banks give small credits of a few dollar each hardly ever more then $20 - only a few percent of those credits bounce, far less then in our usual system for sure as they not given to by real estate or for plain consumption of goods but to start small business. also this credits get only paid of once this business started to produce profit and then only a small share of the profit is used for down payment and their are no interests normally attached to these credits! with such credits you give them the capital to start again as all their capital was used up by us and our actions.
And the last big project is to give them access to free education - a major investment into a in future productive society. An untrained society will not start to train it self to efficient as it simply lacks the means to do so nor will it be productive in such state.

And last - by such steps we help us too as we reduce the large unskilled labor force they build today. If they reach our standards of education they also will reach our cost of living and we will be equal business partners that have to trade fair - our biggest mistake of today is to let China prevail with the basically "slave labor " they us against us today - if we would support fair wages and work conditions by our economical actions and foreign relations work they would be no threat to your economical system anymore! same goes with other places as north Korea or Iran - if you give the people something to life for again they won't attack you nor listen to radicals anymore. this strategy got central Europe peaceful in a few years - this region is so depended on each other today it would be total madness for one to rage war their, way to much to loss today. I won't push with this the idea of the EU union as this is to me a backfiring idea that will cause more and more social unrest in Europe and at some point crush the current progress as it takes national sovernty of the people and leaves them powerless in every mean from electoral powers to actual power in form of the right to bear arms. so this is no way to go as it it is done there today. what proved to be very helpful to business is the free trade options this union offers - but open boarder traffic brings also the risk of freely traveling crime too, which itself is fueled by the unrest over regulation locking up law enforcement. Just ending probation against drugs would free a unbelievable amount of force to cut down the important problem as trafficking of humans or smuggle of goods and so many more things that go without any attention at the moment in the schengen-region.

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+rep points my friend