Clockwork Dreams

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HAL suits and real-life mecha

Inventrix | September 10, 2009

So, yesterday I happen upon this article about the HAL suit. I’d heard mention of it before, a long while ago back when Cyberdyne Inc. started working on it and it had no name, but this is the first I’d heard about its completion.

And look at it.
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Does that look cool or what? (Well, other than the guy wearing it. He doesn’t look so cool.)

So of course I trotted over to the Cyberdyne page about their HAL suit, and this (rather large) chunk of text is what immediately caught my eye:
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What do you get when you cross a Geek and a Nerd?

Inventrix | April 14, 2009

Me!
I discovered this fantastic and surprisingly accurate how-to guide for telling the difference between a geek and a nerd (via Twitter). The following are some quotes from the article which summarize the content quite effectively, in my opinion.
A “nerd” is someone with an extremely intense interest or fascination in an intellectual field of study [...]