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Video: Robotic Exoskeleton Helps Paralyzed College Student Walk Across the Stage at Graduation

Exoskeletons are valuable for several reasons — they can help military personnel carry a heavier load, and they can be used all in the name of fun. But this one might be the best use of all: A 22-year-old paraplegic college graduate, paralyzed since a 2007 car crash, used an exoskeleton to walk across the stage Saturday to receive his diploma.

Austin Whitney, a history and political science major at the University of California-Berkeley, spent nine months working with Homayoon Kazerooni, creator of the HULC exoskeleton and the eLegs rehabilitation system.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/video-robotic-exoskeleton-helps-paralyzed-college-student-walk-across-stage-graduation

O Aerogel não pára de evoluir, agora é um Aerogel com a estrutura dum Diamante!

New Diamond Aerogel is the Airiest Diamond Ever Made
By Rebecca Boyle
Diamonds are the hardest solid materials we know, and the ghostly space-age materials known as aerogels are the least dense. Looking for a challenge, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory decided to combine these substances and turn out a spongy, translucent version of a girl’s best friend.

The result is a diamond aerogel, definitely the least dense diamond ever and perhaps one of the most valuable aerogels ever. Both aerogels and diamonds have interesting qualities, so a substance that combines their properties could be useful for, say, optics, quantum computing or structural engineering, among other possibilities.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/new-diamond-aerogel-least-dense-diamond-ever-made

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