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Fitness Can Be Achieved After The Age Of 50 Per Joe Friel

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A person can be fit well into his or her 50s and beyond. This was what Nick Heil of OutsideOnline.com discovered. He read Joe Friel's book, "Fast After 50." National Fatbike champion Ned Overend...

Wearable Muscle Suits Want to Pump. You. Up.

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I’m a weakling. Do you even lift bro? No. No, I do not. Well, there is the remote. I’m pretty disciplined about lifting that. Thank god I can look like a tough guy with to this line of realistic wearable muscle suits available from Flex Design Costumes.

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These suits come in a variety of muscle types and colors. There are over 24 designs and will cost you anywhere from $750 – $3,500(USD), chump change compared to a personal trainer and all those steroids.

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Now we can all hulk out without having to go to the gym everyday or getting bombarded with Gamma radiation and then ripping all of our clothes to shreds when we get mad.

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Flex Design Costumes has also announced that they will be releasing a line of superhero costumes too. Suit up and get them gains!

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[via This is Why I’m Broke]

CES 2014 in Las Vegas Highlights: Aim (body composition & muscle quality analyzer) from Skulpt Inc

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The much awaited Consumer Electronics Show (CES), also known as International CES is just only a few days away from now. We have been eagerly waiting for this event since last and can’t wait anymore...
    






Muscle Guy is a Hand Strengthening Tool with a Personality

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The thing about exercise is that it’s hard to keep at it if you don’t have anything that’s motivating you to keep going. For some people, it’s fitting into a dress in time for someone’s wedding. For others, it’s simply a lifestyle choice.

Helping people on their path to stronger grips is Muscle Guy.

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It’s basically a hand strengthening tool that comes with a comedic inflatable attachment. Each squeeze of Muscle Guy’s legs will transform an otherwise wrinkly-looking Muscle Guy into a figure with a buff and well-sculpted body.

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Squeezing the handles to exercise the hand muscles causes air to fill an inner cavity. When the tool is used continuously, the muscle man fully inflates. He deflates when the tool is not used. This psychological hint should encourage regular exercise.

It’s neat in the sense that it gives you a preview of your rewards, should you choose to continue exercising. Muscle Guy is a Red Dot Design Award 2013 winner and was designed by Jia Siyuan, Zheng Dongping, and Xuan Xinle.

A $50 Padded Muscle Shirt Beats Exercise

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Eating right? Exercising? Forget that. Just get yourself a cool muscle shirt from Funkybod. These fake muscle tops are for wearing under another shirt so that you can look ripped and awesome without any health food or exercise. That’s a big win. You need something to hide those moobs and this is it.

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According to its makers:

The Funkybod undershirt is designed to enhance your natural physique. Because of the way it is designed, there is a marked improvement in the look if the wearer has the typical visual manboob issues when wearing a shirt. This was not the intended market for the Funkybod muscle top. Initially, it was designed to enhance the upper body muscle groups of skinny to medium build men. After initial trials we found that some of the smaller men had manboob issues which were covered well with the Funkybod muscle top. This led us to experiment with larger men and look into the manboob issue further.

Features of the Funkybod muscle top:

  • Chest plates giving a pumped look
  • Shoulder plates to give a broader look
  • Bicep plates giving bigger biceps
  • Tricep plates giving bigger triceps
  • Feels realistic to the touch

Turn those man boobs into muscle the way nature intended – with a shirt! I doubt that it feels as realistic as they say. The important thing is that it makes me look good to the ladies. Until I take my shirt off anyway. Oh well.

Layer one of these on top to complete the illusion.

[via Gizmodo via Geekologie]

Artificial muscles lift 80 times their weight, pave the way for robot Superman

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Artificial muscles could pave the way to robots with 'superhuman' strength

Other than a few models from Boston Dynamics, most robots don't exactly leave us quaking in fear. That might be off the table soon, though, thanks to a breakthrough from researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS). They've developed polymer-derived artificial muscles that can stretch out up to five times in length, enabling them to lift 80 times their weight. That could one day result in life-like robots with "superhuman strength and ability," which could also run on very little power, according to the team. They expect to have a robotic limb that could smack down any human in arm-wrestling within five years -- putting a possible cyborg version of Over The Top alarmingly within reach.

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DARPA developing muscle-controlled prosthetic limbs that can feel (video)

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DARPA developing prosthetic limbs controlled by muscles and can feel

DARPA's no stranger to bionic limb research, however two new projects under the agency's RE-NET program focus on improving amputees' link to their prosthetics. RE-NET aims to develop the technology that will connect artificial limbs to existing nerves and muscles. Once that's achieved, users will be able feel with the prosthetic as well as move it as they would a real arm or leg, unlike another project focused on one-way control. Head past the break to watch videos documenting the clinical trials of both studies -- the arms in the clips aren't quite the life-like limbs DARPA promised back in 2006, but they sure are mighty impressive.

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Source: DARPA RE-NET

Turing machine built from artificial muscles may lead to smart prosthetics

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Turing machine built from artificial muscles could lead to smart prosthetics

In the hierarchy of computing hardware, artificial muscle doesn't really even register: it's usually a target for action, not the perpetrator. The University of Auckland has figured out a way to let those muscles play a more active role. Its prototype Turing machine uses a set of electroactive polymer muscles to push memory elements into place and squeeze piezoresistive switches, performing virtually any calculation through flexing. The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles. Researchers ultimately envision smart prosthetic limbs with near-natural reflexes, completely soft robots with complex gestures and even a switch from digital to analog computing for some tasks. Although we're quite a distance away from any of those muscle-bound ideas becoming everyday realities, it's good to at least see them on the horizon.

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Via: Phys.org

Source: Applied Physics Letters

Alt-week 9.1.12: growing bones, repairing voices, and a pair of satellites

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Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

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There's definitely more than a touch of a biological theme to proceedings this week. In fact, so much so that we thought we might well end up with enough ingredients to make our own cyborg. Or rather, a light-responding canine cyborg with a really cool voice. Yep, science and technology is working hard to make all of these things possible -- albeit independently. If science ever does do the right thing, and pool its resources on such a project, you can thanks us for the tip off. This is Alt-week.

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