Posted on 06/04/2025 5:41:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Every weekend warrior knows the drill — you sit in front of a computer all week, and when the weekend hits, you bike, hike, and run yourself ragged. Your body feels destroyed on Monday. Repeat.
If this sounds like you — or even if you’re a casual exerciser who wants to walk and bike longer distances without getting tired — the future has arrived. The world’s first-ever outdoor exoskeleton, Hypershell X, can help max out your physical abilities with minimal effort.
Hypershell X is causing a buzz among both outdoorsy types and robotics enthusiasts, and it won the Best of Innovation in Robotics award at CES 2025.
The cyborg-looking device fits like a second skin over your legs and provides up to 800 watts of power, helping you raise your legs and increasing strength up to 40 percent. Whether you’re walking, running, cycling, climbing stairs, or mountaineering, the device’s motor utilizes AI to adapt to your movements in real time, intuitively.
Basically, you feel like yourself, only stronger.
The Hypershell X may look like a sci-fi fantasy device, but you’ll barely feel it while you’re wearing it. Just buckle on the "fanny pack", which also houses the removable and rechargeable battery, and the ergonomic hip levers fit down your legs and are secured by soft straps above your knees. Power the device up via the exoskeleton’s one-touch button, and the M-One motor kicks in, reducing your leg’s physical exertion by up to 30 percent.
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if woman can survive
they will find...”
No, but I used to take ONE two-hole plug plate on my AT hikes and and screw them into them shelters... People walk up and laugh because there are no actual plugs, just the wall plates:) It is a great little conservation piece.
I used to do a couple 100 mile rides every year. Usually back to back. There’s a weird psychological effect. If my plan was 100 miles, I’d start getting tired around 85 miles. If my plan was 85 miles, I’d get tired around 60.
Once I missed a turn and ended up doing the 75 mile trip. Because I had planned for 100, I never felt tired.
I wonder if this would be good for someone with knee problems (e.g. mild arthritis).
One of my brothers does a birthday ride every year, a mile per year of age. He turned 73 a few weeks ago. I haven’t asked him where in the ride he started getting tired.
“It’s like a lower back and leg braces....what happens if it decides to go into high gear ... and, it won’t shut off?”
“Grommit! It’s the Wrong Trousers and they’ve gone wrong!”
I was wondering about that also...this seems more for those with problems...
“Light aluminum alloy. Would probably last about 10-20 minutes in my usage.”
Aluminum alloys are very strong.
Starship Troopers, anyone?
Why not just hike and run normally?
Then you Riverdance!
Peach
Imagine you and some friends want to hike a beautiful mountain trail that’s long and steep. Your wife or girlfriend (or both of them;-)) would like to go, but she’s afraid she wouldn’t be able to keep up.
:-) 💃🏼
Typically, exoskeletons fail for one or more of three reasons: insufficient energy supply; lack of ergonomics for different body types; or causing damage to joints, ligaments and tendons.
How much different from the metal “MAN AMPLIFIER” shown in POPULAR SCIENCE (Nov 1965) back in the early 1960s? Later seen in the movie THE AMBUSHERS, and a big one in ALIENS.
https://books.google.com/books?id=-yUDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Run longer and faster without receiving the the health benefits of doing either!
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