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The Exo-Trainer
Introducing the Exo-Trainer by Lucian. The actual unit you are looking at is one of several dozen that were originally designed and built by Lucian in the 1980’s as a means of countermeasure against micro-gravity induced musculo-skeletal atrophy for use aboard the (now non-existent) space station “Freedom” or on a manned trip to Mars. (The current space station replaced the “Freedom” design and is designated Space Station “Alpha” – but is also called the International Space Station or ISS).

The Exo-Trainer was designed to support and maintain physical performance in humans and is capable of training the entire body as a means of maintaining fitness, as well as, performing functional physical therapy and rehabilitation. The all-in-one exoskeletal design is based on the human endoskeletal system and is functionally derived from bio-locomotion dynamics. It can be used to maintain physical performance capabilities by utilizing specific force vector alignments of the limbs and the precise application of non-gravitationally-based loads on each of the primary and secondary kinematic joints in any combination.

By adjusting the load application and the motion control of the user’s limbs, the Exo-Trainer can be used to recreate the same force dynamics that the body uses to perform normal type exercises or activities. This versatility allows the unit to be used for flexibility training exercises and protocols as well as (separate) typical strength training exercises, aerobic exercises and even high output endurance training protocols. It was manufactured as a product for a short period of time and briefly appeared in the Sharper Image Catalog* (where it quickly sold to an untold number of professional athletes and Hollywood celebrities) and subsequently became the basis for numerous exoskeletal robot projects worldwide.

* Thanks to Howard for allowing me to use his unit as the basis for a new product design for the open market.

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• Sept 9, 1947 – First documented Computer bug
• Harvard Mark II computer
• Star Trek is 42 today
• Three-pieces robotic musicians react to humans and plants
• Wired Magazine photo of robot by Nemo Gould
• Nemomatic robotic art by Nemo Gould
• The-secret-life-of-paper
• Thinkgeek.com retro handset with cord
• Thinkgeek.com retro handset cordless
• Goce_satellite will measure gravity and ocean temps
• Plastic-Logic-finally-ready-to-launch-flexible-e-newspaper
• Youtube – Plastic Logic Reader
• Large hadron collider has blackhole button
• Brian Cox on CERN LHC
• LHC will settle $100 bet between Stephen Hawking and Peter Higgs

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• 1965: Gemini V returns to Earth
• USSR detonates first nuclear bomb – RDS-1
• Hydrogen Bomb Explosion Video
• 2007 US Air Force nuclear weapons incident
• The Pit Stop – a new way to return from space
• Turning Roads into Solar Collectors
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• Robots more intelligent than humans in 40 years
  

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• Bigfoot discovery confirmed as fake
• Ever Cat Fuels develops new biodiesel process
• Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells
• CAPTCHAs work for digitizing old, damaged texts
• The Universal Packing List
• YouTube – Emile Cohl – Fantasmagorie 1908
• Fantasmagorie 2008 by Prof. Rastko Ciric
• YouTube – ETA by Junk

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• Repair of the sinkhole on my property
• August 15 – NY Times
• WOW signal – Wikipedia
• Great ‘Hello’ Mystery Is Solved
• The First Hello
• Today in Technology History – Aug 15
• Earliest Recordings ever made
• AMP Motorworks – Saturn Sky electric car
• Cost Analysis for converting Saturn Sky
• Where particles and physics collide
• YouTube – Large Hadron Rap

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“The main memory core is starting to erase. He’s shutting down the whole system! We’re locked out.”
Director Martin runs over to the nearest console and starts typing in codes. Nothing he does is helping. The Vice President turns to the group of Generals standing behind them.
“Get me a military team and find that prick—”
The alarm sounds again. This time it goes for almost ten seconds. When it stops, Jay-L is already talking.
“Mr. President. You’d better get a hold of your Fat Little Penguin—”
“Who the hell do you think you are telling me what to do?” The President was getting angry now.
“I’ll tell you who I am. I’m the man who controls your future right now.” Jay-L slightly raises his volume. “So let me repeat myself. You better get your evil little side-kick under control right now… And here’s why. You signed a legal Treaty with a Sovereign Nation to give you the ability to spy on every other country in the world. If you break that contract, then I’ll take back the computer and everything on it, which is what I’m doing right now.” Then he leans in really close to the camera again. “But if you attempt to stop me from executing my legal rights under this Treaty, or if you attempt to come after me or my computer… then I will consider that an act of war!”

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“Sir, do not attempt to cross the moat…

“I can hear him just fine!” The President of the University of Miami informs the brightly colored Guard. Then he yells past him toward Jay-L. “Mr. Farnsworth, I am over this nonsense and I’m not going to stand for this anymore…”

The President starts walking toward the shallow black concrete trench with the sparkles in it. He didn’t notice the solid stone sentry columns that sat every ten meters around the perimeter of the Research Park.

But they notice him.

The sphere shaped top of the two sentry columns that were flanking the area that the angry University President was approaching, swing silently toward their prey. They have long since locked onto the moving target. As the president crosses the bright Yellow line that was painted on the street where the University property abuts the former Golf Community, the lasers in the Sentry heads fire a silent and invisible set of beams across the path directly in front of the Head Administrator of the adjacent University.

President John Smitt freezes in his tracks. The high-energy laser beams are hitting a few feet away from him inside the shallow ditch made of a special energy absorbing concrete. It is actually the purpose of the special moat that now surrounds the entire perimeter of the once beautiful and exclusive country club golf course. The lasers make a crackling sound as the nano-material absorbs the laser energy and re-directs it as static charge. As a thin sheet of smoke begins to form above the sparkling concrete, the normally invisible lasers form a perfect X a short distance in front of the wide-eyed President’s feet. The entire surface surrounding the twin laser impact zone is now electrified with enough static Tazer charge to even impress the Orange County Florida Sheriff’s Office.

But that’s 300 miles north of here. In Orlando.

They are in Miami – or Coral Gables actually…

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Now as Luke and Marshall made their way to the bottom corridor of the vessel, Luke chatted casually. “Those folding berths in the guest quarters look an awful lot like the sleeping berths on a nuclear submarine. Did you know that?”

“Let me guess, more Military Channel?” Marshall was thinking that somebody at the Pentagon ought to check out those guys over at the Military Channel. There seems to be way too much information leaking out of the cable television sets in the country – information that used to take the lives of spies to obtain. And now it seems you could just set your TIVO and become a military expert – well almost.

Luke just laughs. “You should check it out. You’d be surprised what kind of information is floating around out there.” The door to the hyperbaric chamber was still latched open against the side bulkhead. Luke went in first. “I’ll set down the sleeping cots from the wall. We can put the kids on them and keep their IV’s on the latch above the bed.” He stopped a little past the panel that Marshall had used to control the hyperbaric oxygen and lower the pressure.

Marshall stops and turns around as he bends over to set the chamber for the same setting they had earlier. He starts to tell Luke what he is doing – he’ll show him which knobs, too. “OK, I’ll set the gas mixture. Almost pure oxygen and half atmospheric pressure, right?” Marshall turns back around and looks up to show Luke what he’s doing. He didn’t see Luke standing there, like he expected. What he saw was Luke opening the door at the far end of the long radiation shielded pressure tube. Before Marshall can react, Luke has the door open. Marshall jumps up and sprints to the other end of the chamber. He’s cursing himself for not putting a lock on this pressure door as well. It had never seemed necessary. Anyone inside had already passed the keypad security. And anyone coming from the other direction would—

He didn’t have time to finish his thought. Before he can reach him, Luke jumps into the room on the other side of the door. Marshall gets to the door in time to see Luke stand up from the seven step leap. Luke was standing on a platform over another small flight of stairs that went down to the bottom of the boat. Where there should have been a pair of gigantic diesel engines, there were instead…

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Yes Marissé had managed to make friends. Marissé had managed to stay innocent. Marissé had managed not to get married, and pregnant, and hidden away by some greedy man wanting to horde her beauty. Marissé had also managed to get a high school degree – and a scholarship to the University of Miami. When she would enter the University as a Freshman, she knew immediately what she would do – and where she would go – and what she would study– and what degree she would have when she left this amazing place of knowledge that she’d now entered.

What she did not know was how to get along with all of the spoiled rotten American jerks that surrounded her now in this brand new University life-experience. But the scholarship included and paid for a dorm room, and she was going to take advantage of it. Even though her mother still lived in the city. And even though she could have found a way to take the public transportation system to and from class, both her and her mother decided the smartest thing for her to do – would be to live in the dorm. No distractions from home – or the old neighborhood – would interfere with her studies. However, neither of them considered what it would be like to find a room-mate. Not just a room-mate, but a room-mate that would be capable of tolerating Marissé. And more importantly, a room-mate that Marissé would NOT kill.

Marissé’s flair for personal temper and her well known abilities to defend herself quickly became the source of legend among the Freshman Coed Dorm. Her room-mates for the first two months of the semester, flowed in and out of her room like a breeze from the Atlantic. It was actually quite humorous. There were two weeks where the number of days in the week equaled the number of room-mates she went through. The Dormitory Monitors didn’t have a clue what was happening. No one who wanted out of the room would say anything – other than they had to leave – and they had to leave now. And that’s all that they would say…

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Luke and Marshall visit the bottom of the boat again…

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• YouTube – BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Design
• Science News / Footprints In The Ash
• Suprafroths: How Cappuccino Froth Is Like A Superconductor
• Mike Libby – Insect Lab
• NIST Chemists Get Scoop on Crude Oil from Pig Manure
• Visitors flocking to see unicorn deer
• Professor invents red hot chilli meter
• Retuning Bacteria with gene silencing
• YouTube – Robots with a mind of their own
• Curious quasiparticles baffle physicists
• Human egg makes accidental debut on camera
• Doctor: Internet Addiction Should Be Termed a Disease
• Animate Projects – Magnetic Movie
• Whatever Happened to Whatever Happened to the Bees?
• Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
• New super-paper is stronger than cast iron
• Antarctic iceberg that looks like a giant humbug
• Something’s Shaking in Antarctica
• Estrogen Applied To Human Penis Could Block Spread Of HIV
• YouTube – Sebastian’s Voodoo – 3d animation

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The fat-boy-with-braces was sure the adults here were stupid. It was the children who were the ones who felt like they were in charge. The adults who were at the testing facility never felt like they were in control of anything. They never had any idea what the hell was going on around them. Most of them were just baby-sitters with side-arms. They were not teachers or educators – mostly just test monitors. There were no verbal questions or clarifications that would be asked during these tests – by anyone. And the layers of secrecy surrounding the program made sure nobody on the staff talked among themselves. The only consistent factor became the kids. Certain kids stuck around. Most of the others did not. Kids who stuck around got to be known. They kept coming back for more and more tests. And this particular testing facility was one of the few that had The Legend show up at it. And he did it on a pretty regular basis. At least that’s what the fat-boy-with-braces had heard. And that’s all that anybody really did when it came to The Legend – hear things.
The Legend only came in by himself. And rarely did anyone else get to see him. He always tested alone – always. Nobody else was ever even allowed in the room with him. The fat-boy-with-braces had spoken to a girl at lunch on the last testing day a week ago, who said she had seen him after a test session. She said he looked like he’d been at the beach. This caused the small group of kids at the lunch table to gasp quietly while everyone eaves-dropped on the girl’s story. The gasps were because the tests that all of the students had been taking over the months they had been coming here – were very hard tests. Even the kids in this cafeteria, who have all passed the tests, did not fly through them. They took effort, and studying – if you were trying to do well on them.
But not The Legend…
It was only stories – but the stories were amazing. He’d never missed a question. Nobody had ever scored a perfect score on so many exams. Nobody has ever gotten close to his scores. He finishes in half the time. He takes the test in pen. He never checks his answers. And he never talks – to anyone – ever.
The rumors were all true. This is why the CIA does not employ children.
…

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• YouTube – Travels With Our Cats: STS-124 Launch
• Quantum computing advance—diamonds are a qubit’s best friend
• Cane toads killing Australian crocs
• Brief, intense exercise benefits the heart
• New type of glass can re-grow bone
• Junk journey highlights ‘plastic soup’ of Pacific Ocean
• Plastic brain outsmarts experts
• zBoard : Way Basics – 99% recycled material 66% lighter than wood
• ENN: Galapagos eruption no threat to giant turtles
• YouTube – How to make popcorn with your cellphone
• A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab – teaching robofish to school
• Dancing microrobots waltz on a pin’s head
• New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases
• Nano-crystal coating increases LED output to 300 lumens per watt
• Mule Lighting – LED FLEX – Neon replacement
• Egypt uncovers ‘missing’ pyramid of a pharaoh
• Tutankhamun pharaoh was a red wine drinker
• Telltale DNA sucked out of household dust
• Could background radiation be hurting your health?
• Building a Baby Earth to Test Its Magnetic Field
• Stunning Photo – Dense Sun Rays at one region on river
• YouTube – Natural Decay (The Radioactivity Song)

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• Scientists heat matter to 10 million degrees Celsius
• Algae Startups at Crucial Moment in Algae Oil Refinement
• Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
• Cyber/Steampunk Futuresque Sci-Fi Hand Gun
• Hard Science Fiction: 10 Books that Prove Science Fiction Just Got Harder
• YouTube – Nascar Daytona 2008 Craftsman Robot Commercial
• Mitochondria and Aging – Interview Dr. Douglas Wallace
• One of last remaining ‘uncontacted’ tribes spotted in Brazil
• Where’s Waldo?  With the tribe in Brazil
• How to use Australian slang like a local
• Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet
• Heavy Welded Hinges – Hardware for your dungeon
• Why every Guy should by his girlfriend a Wii
• Nintendo Wii Girlfriend’s response to video
• Virtual Alcohol Control – ScienCentral
• Scientists create new nanotube structures
• Nanoparticles of a Different Stripe
• Lilium Urbanus
• Russia Opens Monument to Space Dog Laika
• The Legacy of U.S. Space Chimps
• YouTube – What we are

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• DNS trouble knocks NSA off Internet
• National Security Agency
• U.S. military had counterfeit computer gear, says FBI
• Amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius allowed to compete in Beijing
• Earth Set to Receive Alien Reply in 2015?
• TU Delft – Walking robots
• A Brief History of the Disposable Diaper
• Canadian student isolates microbe that eats plastic bags
• BioArts – plans to auction chance to clone 5 dogs for $100k
• SAAZS light prose – amazing lighted shelves
• Mojave Skies: Flight of the Rocket Racer!
• Ethanol, the ultimate home brew
• Finally, Some Good News about the Environment
• YouTube – Connie Talbot: Wonderful World
• 290 million-year-old fossil settles frog salamander debate
• Vandals damage Stonehenge
• BBQ Donut Pontoon Combines Rafting and Grilling
• Old Soviet TV Sets
• Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans
• Google Trends: entropy actually decreasing – who knew?
• YouTube – Peas And Carrots

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