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Old 09-03-2007, 06:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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5. HAL-5 Robot Suit

This robot suit allows anyone who wears it, the potential to lift up to 10-times the weight they normally could. Production will be limited to just 20-units next year and 400-500 units in 2008.




4. The Incredible Dishmaker

Created by MIT student Leonardo Bonanni, this incredible device “can actually replace cabinets worth of dishes by storing them as flat disks.”




3. Partial Invisibility Cloak

According to LiveScience, scientists “have created a cloaking device that can reroute certain wavelengths of light, forcing them around objects like water flowing around boulders in a stream.”




2. MIT’s Assist Sketch Understanding System

MIT’s amazing “Assist Sketch Understanding System” basically “allows an engineer to sketch a mechanical system as you would on paper, and then enables them to interact with the design as a mechanical system.”




1. Diamond Touch Hardware Toolkit

Rob Diaz-Marino shows off work that he’s completed to simplify the development of applications on Mitsubishi’s Diamond Touch hardware.




Honorable Mention - Transparent Concrete Display

Two engineering/architecture students have created the world’s first display made of transparent concrete



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Old 09-03-2007, 08:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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CLAOK is best one , i'll be hollow man
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its only gives partial invisibility...
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Old 09-03-2007, 09:05 PM   #4 (permalink)
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^^But isn't that amazing....and maybe in future we might get full invisibility also
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the invisibility tool needs a blur effect as well to match beryl/aero
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when partial will become full...
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its only gives partial invisibility...
something is better than nothing
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mave....super post...repped u
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yea the HAL suit and the invi cloak is nice...
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nice innovations. i like the HAL robot and Cloak Suit.
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That cloak is great.


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Sweeeeeeeet!
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wow...thats...something called awesome...
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The HAL-5 Robo Suit is superb. From Technovelgy
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The fifteen kilogram battery-powered suit detects muscle movements through electrical signal flows on the skin surface. These currents are picked up by the sensors and sent to the computer, which translates the nerve signals into signals of its own for controlling electric motors at the hips and knees of the exoskeleton, effectively amplifying muscle strength. HAL stands for "hybrid assistive limb"; HAL-5 is the latest version of the suit.
The inside of the suit is a mass of pressure receptors, hundreds of them. You push with the heel of your hand; the suit feels it, amplifies it, pushes with you to take the pressure off the receptors that gave the order to push.
"The real genius in the design is that you don't have to control the suit; you just wear it, like your clothes, like skin."
But 3. Partial Invisibility Cloak is confusing.
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According to LiveScience, scientists “have created a cloaking device that can reroute certain wavelengths of light, forcing them around objects like water flowing around boulders in a stream.”
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Scientists have created a cloaking device that can reroute certain wavelengths of light, forcing them around objects like water flowing around boulders in a stream. To creatures or machines that see only in microwave light, the cloaked object would appear nearly invisible.

"The microwaves come in and are swept around the cloak and reconstructed on the other side while avoiding the interior region," said study team member David Smith at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. "So it looks as if they just passed through free space."

The device only works in the microwave range of light, so cloaked objects are still visible to humans. Also, it only works in two dimensions and only for microwaves moving in a plane. A three-dimensional invisibility cloak would hide an object completely.The microwave cloak is also slightly reflective and casts a partial shadow.
It seems to be a 2006 project. This is the image shown in the LiveScience page.

I think the image shown in this post is of a different project done by the Japanese in 2003.
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A professor at the University of Tokyo has created an optical camouflage system that makes anyone wearing a special reflective material seem to disappear. Here's how: a video camera records the real-life scenery behind the subject, transmits that image to a front-mounted projector, which then displays the scene on the reflective material.
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How does it work?
First, putting the video camera behind the person in the cloak, and capturing his background. hen, projecting the captured image onto the cloak from the projector. So, if you see from the peephole, you will see as if the cloak is transparent. Because the image is projected by the technology called Retro-reflective Projection Technology (RPT), you can see the reflection only on the cloak and clearly even in brightness.

The special material is used as screen for RPT. That’s different from the screen in the cinemas. This material is called ‘Retro-reflective Material’, and also used for the cloak. The surface of Retro-reflective Material is covered with very small beads. If the light strikes the material, the light reflects only in the same direction as it has come. So, the image is reflected clearly even in
brightness.
In fact, you can find a lot of things using Retro-reflective Material around you. Traffic signs, bicycle’s reflector and the lighting part of the raincoat are made from Retro reflective Material. As like the transparent cloak, it can be seen from far away because they shine brightly by little light of the cars.
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please refer the source i hv mentioned ... its copy paste i hv only edited the part that gives a little info on the tech ... sources have been mentioned within the source also
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