Tag: fashion

Soft exoskeletons

I wonder whether the space or disability applications will come on line first.

2013-05-24: Warrior Web

The Army is nearing completion of a five-month series of tests to evaluate multiple Warrior Web prototype devices. The testing evaluates how each prototype incorporates different technologies and approaches to reduce forces on the body, decrease fatigue, stabilize joints and help Soldiers to maintain a natural gait under a heavy load. The testing uses a multi-camera motion-capture system to determine any changes in gait or balance, a cardio-pulmonary exercise testing device to measure oxygen consumption and a variety of sensors to collect force, acceleration and muscle activity data.

2015-07-20: Harvard Soft Exosuits

compared to a traditional exoskeleton, these systems have several advantages, the wearer’s joints are unconstrained by external rigid structures, and the worn part of the suit is extremely light.

2016-09-25: Exoskeleton to get average soldiers to run 24km/h

2018-07-06: Powered Clothing

Seismic is combining clothing and robotics into what they call Powered Clothing. They aim to get exosuits into stores by the end of 2018 in the US, Japan and the UK. The suit’s ‘electric muscles’, powered by tiny motors, contract and mimic human muscle. These electric muscles are part of the clothing around the joints of the body and attached via grips in the clothing. The grips act like tendons in the human body. A computer and sensors tracking body movements are also integrated into the suit; software tells the muscles in the clothing when to activate. The hard technology components such as motors, batteries and control boards are incorporated into hexagonal low-profile pods, designed for maximum comfort.

2.5 ka Tattoos

jersey shore-style tribal tattoos actually 2.5 ka old.

Tattoos were used as a mean of personal identification – like a passport now, if you like. The Pazyryks also believed the tattoos would be helpful in another life, making it easy for the people of the same family and culture to find each other after death

Disc Man sighting

Just saw someone with a disc man. No trace of irony.

Terrorist fashion

i have to share it for the closing line alone:

But how did KSM go from the Ron Jeremy porn-star look to more of a Gimli? Apparently, it would damage national security if we knew.

Amazon Fashion

And shopper-friendly advice — does the size 8 shoe run big or small? — is prominent.

really what they should be doing is specify the sizes of all their items in standard cm, instead of the fantasy fashion sizes. wrong sizes is probably a significant driver for returns, so amazon has an interest in expunging vanity sizes.

an anthology of hats

quite amazing and worth a visit to this obscure location in the UWS

Ancient Hairdressing

the most amazing hairdresser in the world.

The depth of her knowledge blew me away. She is fully conversant in the archaeology (including unpublished artifacts), ancient literary sources and published scholarship of Roman hairstyling, and not just Roman but Etruscan and Greek as well.

Her work in this field is unique because her experience as a stylist gives her particular insight into how hair works and what can be accomplished with what tools. She upends a number of assumptions — that Roman women must have used wigs to achieve their more elaborate hairstyles, that they used hairpins — and injects a whole new simplicity and accuracy to the very vocabulary of ancient hairdressing.