Power Jacket Exo-Skeleton

It’s cool-looking, but don’t expect to have super-human strength with this suit. It has been designed to help partially paralyzed people in their rehabilitation. In this photo, the left arm will mimic the motion of the right arm, thanks to the synthetic muscles (the blue tubes). That, in turn, will help patients remember “the feeling of moving the arm themselves”.

The device will be tested in Japan and might be on the market by 2009 for $17000 before eventually being mass-produced at a cheaper price.

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Vest uses battery power to keep warm

With snow all around and the mercury dropping like there's no tomorrow, it would be prudent to fork out a little bit of extra money for the Heated Vest to keep you warm and toasty all around without freezing to death whenever you go out. At $129.99 from Hammacher, the Heated Vest is made from polyester fleece and is reversible, essentially giving your two different styles within a single vest. It is thin enough to hug your body under a jacket, and uses an embedded carbon-fiber mesh and infrared heater to warm the fabric evenly, doing away with the need for messy wires or heating elements. The vest's rechargeable batteries offer up to 4 hours of continuous heating.

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