Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Fw: This Technology Will Turn You Into A Real-Life Superhero


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You don't need to be born with a genetic mutation or be exposed to solar radiation in order to become a superhero.

All you need is the cash to buy some pretty exclusive technology.

Here are 10 devices that will have you climbing walls like Spiderman or painlessly taking a bullet like Batman.

The XOS 2 is your real-life Iron Man suit

This military exoskeleton is designed to make a soldier's workload a little lighter. It works with the wearer to make lifting heavy objects or carrying a heavy pack effortless.

It's expected to be deployed to battlefields within 5 years.



Climb walls like Spiderman

Engineers at Cornell University have created a "palm-sized device that uses the adhesive power of water to create a reversible adhesive bond capable of sticking to glass, wood and even brick." Funded by the military, they hope to adapt it to allow a user to climb up walls.

Yes, that's right -- Spiderman gloves.



Clothes that make you invisible

True invisibility isn't impossible at all.

Zang Xiang of UC Berkeley has used "metamaterials" -- artificially engineered structures that have properties not seen in nature, such as negative refractive index -- to affect light by sending it around the material. The effect is literally that of an invisibility cloak.



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