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Showing posts with label human performance augmentation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human performance augmentation. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2020

Opinium Research survey - The future is cyborg: Kaspersky study finds support for human augmentation

 Title:
 The future is cyborg: Kaspersky study finds support for human augmentation

Published:
Reuters, 17 September 2020

From the article:
The Opinium Research survey of 14,500 people in 16 countries including Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain showed that 63% of people would consider augmenting their bodies to improve them, though the results varied across Europe.

Friday, March 27, 2020

Research at Vanderbilt University (March 2020) - Hypothetical spring-loaded human exoskeleton could double running speed

Title:
Hypothetical spring-loaded human exoskeleton could double running speed

Author:
Bob Yirka

Published:
Tech Xplore, 26 March 2020

From this article:
"A pair of researchers at Vanderbilt University has proposed a method to create a device that would allow human beings to run nearly twice as fast as is possible naturally. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Amanda Sutrisno and David Braun describe their idea for such a device and what is required to make it a reality."

To read the article:
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-hypothetical-spring-loaded-human-exoskeleton.html

Scholarly article:
Sutrisno, A. & Braun, D.J. (2020). How to run 50% faster without external energy. Science Advances, 6(13).
Available: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/13/eaay1950