New Exoskeleton Gives Soldiers Super Strength

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April 6, 2009 -- Stronger, faster and harder is the promise of a new exoskeleton (http://health.howstuffworks.com/what-if-exoskeleton.htm) developed by Lockheed Martin for U.S. soldiers. Dubbed the Human Universal Load Carrier, or HULC, the device helps a soldier (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/15/robotic-suit-army.html) carry up to 200 pounds at a top speed of 10 mph.
"The soldier has the feeling of maybe an extra five to 10 pounds," said Doug Medcalf, Business Development Manager at Lockheed Martin. Today some soldiers are carrying loads of up to 130 pounds into combat....
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/06/hulc-exoskeleton.html

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World’s Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home

By Saul Hansell (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/saul-hansell/)If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fast broadband Internet service, here’s a statistic that will make heart race. Or your blood boil. Or both.
Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world is the 160-megabit-per-second service offered by J:Com, the largest cable company in Japan. Here’s how much the company had to invest to upgrade its network to provide that speed: $20 per home passed..........
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/the-cost-to-offer-the-worlds-fastest-broadband-20-per-home/