Asian Power Suits Make You Like Superman

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Maybe it’s not quite as uber-strong as the HAL-5 exoskeleton (above), the Tokyo University of Science’s Muscle Suit is still nothing to be laughed at. Exchanging actual muscle usage for gadgetry, the powered suit lets you lift things your normally couldn’t on your own, like Rush Limbaugh.

The suit’s not portable, though; an external compressor and air regulation system are required to activate the pneumatics. This means it’ll likely find insdustrial uses, like in factories or in the garage of Lohan’s coke dealer.

It’s not commercial yet, so no price, but we see this little sub-market blowing up in the next few years as industrialists try to come up with new ways to make their poor workers more productive.

The HAL-5 exoskeleton (below), on the other robotic hand, can now be rented for just $590 a month for the next year, basically allowing anyone who saw Robocop to live out their fantasy of being a living-cyborg with superhuman strength.

If you had $600 to blow on renting the suit for a month, what would you do with it? I’d probably show up to an 80s dance party and start doing the robot the way it was meant to be done. That and I’d chuck cars left and right for giggles.

Of course right now the suit is useless for me. Until these can make you jump 50 feet in the air and outrun trains, I don’t see this as something I would buy.