Exoskeleton

I had no intention of ever playing The Surge. It looked boring, overly familiar, and mostly desolate, like a dozen other third-person action games by studios Id never really heard of in which some dude, always some dude, is on a mission to wreck shit up becau…

The late seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoon Fred and Barney Meet the Thing took rather more liberties with Marvel Comics canon than anything else ever. Now Fred And Barney did not actually meet The Thing outside of the titles, they were just two separate parts …

A new fossil species named after an iconic starship is both unlike anything that exists today and uncannily similar to many modern animals, from stingrays to horseshoe crabs. When paleontologists first spotted the large, round shield-like fossils in B.C.'s K…

While dancing comes natural to many people, for others, hitting the dance floor can be a mortifying experience. But clubs in the future could offer people with two left feet a glimmer of hope, if a recent rave is anything to go by. The rave took place at Si…

Posted July 29, 2019 06:35:32 Robotic skeletons may sound like something out of a science fiction movie but they are now being used to help people with severe spinal cord injuries take their first steps. Key points: A robotic suit is being triall…

Its hard not to be envious of Spider-Mans ability to dodge attacks using his superhuman reflexes when you still drop your toast on the floor some mornings. But a radioactive spider bite might not be the only way to gain superhuman reflexes, because researcher…

Remember "clubbing"? You were young, slim, limber not a care in the world. You thought you could dance. If you couldn't, it didn't matter. Now look at you. Flailing flabby limbs swinging from a corpulent, jiggling mass. Disgusting. But San Francisco (where e…

Scientists at the IIT-Kanpur have ventured into the world’s first robotic hand for the rehabilitation of stroke patients and have finished their tests on it. The device is a two-finger robotic hand (exoskeleton) that uses a four-bar mechanism and has four de…

Published in July 2019 (Issue 110) | 8152 words © 2017 by Indrapramit Das. Originally published in Infinity Wars, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Reprinted by permission of the author. Were recording. I was born in the sky, for war. This is what we were told.…

The rubber hand illusion is an impressive dinner party trick. It persuades an unwitting guest that a rubber hand on the table  is actually his or her own. For the victim, the illusion is rapid, dramatic, and convincingthe person feels the hand and experiences…