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Sorry, but squats are so 20th Century. Instead, strap on the HULC — Human Universal Load Carrier — exoskeleton and effortlessly carry an extra 200lbs. HULC not only increases your human payload, but it also “decreases [your] metabolic cost”. In other words, it seems Berkeley Bionics developed this thing for extremely lazy people, those who lose their breath easily, or for those on what they call “long duration missions”. This is no joke, though — the company is taking orders for the suit already.

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Sweet isn’t it? You can nearly hear the pitter-pattering of Keepon’s tiny servo heart as he gazes into HOAP-3’s hungry, yet soulless eyes. Robots, it’s what’s for breakfast.

Thomas: “With your nose and my mouth, well, damnit.. you complete me.”
Chris: “Don’t let them call you a chicken… you fought like a champion out there. I didn’t get to be Don King-bot by promoting losers.”
Don: “Coming soon to theaters: Ratatouille 2: Electric Boogaloo”
Josh T: “I’m going to eat you… with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Ththththththththththp!”
Paul: “No way, Britt Daniel said that to you? What a jerk. Him and Portland deserve each other.”
Josh F: “Sweep the leg. No mercy.”
Ryan: “The secret ingredient of this week’s Really Iron Chef is…”

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Apple’s latest iTunes ad features “the band Coldplay and lead singer and pianist Chris Martin,” highlighting “the upcoming release their new album, Viva la Vida.” Video after the break.

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These fanmade towers aren’t the first to be constructed, but they certainly are the tallest. From LEGO to filing cabinets, you’ll find them after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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Improv Everywhere took to the Brooklyn Bridge for their latest stunt: sending 700 people to the bridge and firing off camera flashes simultaneously to “make a ‘wave’ of light.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

t’s pretty awesome that a whopping 700 people showed up in the rain to pull this off, especially seeing how many of their cameras must have gotten fried.

[via Gizmodo - Improveverywhere]

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The FASTRA supercomputer boasts four NVIDIA 9800 X2 graphics cards for “a total of eight GPUs with 1,024 stream processors” that “perform as fast as 350 modern CPU cores.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Looking at new computational methods for tomography - a technique used by medical scanners to create 3D images - University of Antwerp researchers have built a budget supercomputer

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Ubisoft CEO states that Beyond Good & Evil 2 “will be made ‘more accessible,’ a supposed improvement from a title that was ‘probably a little too difficult for the general gamers at that time.’ Continue reading for the trailer. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Speaking to Next Generation, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot describes the recently announced Beyond Good & Evil sequel as a game done “for the new generation that’s come into videogames.”

[via Joystiq]

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What could be better than surfing the internet and/or YouTube on your iPhone? Playing Battle Pong with friends. Put simply, this is an updated version of “Atari’s classic paddle ball game, with a multi-device, multi-player twist.” Video after the break.

While the game can’t actually detect the proximity of the devices at this point, it does appear to store the exit position of the ball on one screen and transmit that as the entrance point on the adjacent screen.

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Aside from making wallets, there are many duct tape uses, such as building a functional computer case. The fine example above manages “to keep all of the components and the structure itself secure using rolled up duct tape support beams.” Click here for first picture in gallery.

We all know duct tape has a million uses - but did you know that the actual figure is a million and one? It’s true - a bunch of geeks confirmed it when they succeeded in building a PC case entirely out of the sticky stuff.

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Joe & Mac, released in 1991 (arcades), starred “the green-haired Joe and the blue-haired Mac, cavemen who battle though numerous prehistoric levels using crude, stone weapons such as boomerangs, bones and clubs.” ScrewAttack takes a look back at this title after the break.

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