An Exoskeleton That Boosts Biceps Wins James Dyson's $45,000 Prize | Wired Design The winner of this year's James Dyson award is the Titan Arm, a battery-powered upper-body exoskeleton. Image: Dyson It was created by a group of students at University of Pennsylvania--the first American team to win the award in its nine year run. Image: Dyson The Titan Arm isn't the first exoskeleton, but it may be the first of its kind. A detail of a machined part. The winner of this year's James Dyson award is the Titan Arm, a battery-powered upper-body exoskeleton. Elysium proved that even doughy dudes like Matt Damon could be futuristic action heroes with the help of a high-tech exoskeleton. Today, the Titan Arm was announced as the winner of this year’s James Dyson Award, the serial innovator’s annual student competition. an annual competition held by the serial innovator. It’s certainly not the first working exoskeleton, but in many ways it’s the first of its kind. One of those was a project out of a lab in Tokyo that used pressurized air to drive the super-strength poweres.
Computer that can decode your thoughts and put them into words Technology could offer lifeline for stroke victims and people hit by degenerative diseasesIn the study, a computer analyzed brain activity and reproduced words that people were hearing By Tamara Cohen Updated: 05:49 GMT, 1 February 2012 It sounds like the stuff of science fiction dreams - or nightmares. Scientists believe they have found a way to read our minds, using a computer program that can decode brain activity in our brains and put it into words. They say it could offer a lifeline to those whose speech has been affected by stroke or degenerative disease, but many will be concerned about the implications of a technique that can eavesdrop on thoughts and reproduce them. Scroll down for video Scientific breakthrough: An X-ray CT scan of the head of one of the volunteers, showing electrodes distributed over the brain's temporal lobe, where sounds are processed The scientists believe the technique could also be used to read and report what they were thinking of saying next. Watch video here