Clockwork Dreams

Enthusiastically Unstable; Eloquently Retrotech

Nook, Kindle, etc… What would make ME buy an e-book reader?

Inventrix | May 4, 2010

It’s a tough decision, shopping for an e-book reader. Not the least of which being that there is not a single e-book reader that even remotely approaches what I want. Especially when you have such lovely Kindle horror stories about losing your privacy or your lack of ownership of your possessions.
Which begs the question: what [...]

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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