Ideal for pranks...

March 9, 2011 11:15 AM

Introducing the Skeletonics exoskeleton (slyt)
posted by Artw (21 comments total)

yes...yes...

now get two of them and have them fight.
posted by The Whelk at 11:17 AM on March 9, 2011

GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BITCH
posted by nathancaswell at 11:17 AM on March 9, 2011 [2 favorites]

sorry, GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BITCH
posted by nathancaswell at 11:18 AM on March 9, 2011

Anybody remember Exosquad? I remember stumbling across it as a kid and it just about blew my mind.
posted by kmz at 11:20 AM on March 9, 2011

Outtakes at the end show they faked at least one of these shots?

Also, it's not an exoskeleton until it encases you. This is more of a pantoskeleton.
posted by DU at 11:20 AM on March 9, 2011

Sorry, my natural pessimism sees these and thinks they won't look anywhere near as cool when they at your next political protest, dressed in black and spraying rubber bullets and tear gas. YMMV.
posted by doctor_negative at 11:23 AM on March 9, 2011

Ed, is that you?
posted by robocop is bleeding at 11:25 AM on March 9, 2011

Needs more CRUSH KILL DESTROY
posted by Mister_A at 11:26 AM on March 9, 2011

Yeah, how long before someone hangs a gun on the end of one of these and takes to the streets, a la Phoenix Jones?
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 11:27 AM on March 9, 2011

This looks really cool, but the cautious-ness that now lives in my optimism makes me wonder: Doesn this give any significant enhancement to strength, or speed?

Or maybe that's not the point of this.
posted by Krazor at 11:28 AM on March 9, 2011

The point is to look cool in a big metal suit. They didn't add any hydraulics/electronics to this thing, so any increases in speed/strength would be a byproduct of the added size/length of the levers involved.

Still though, it does look really cool.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 11:31 AM on March 9, 2011

Doesn this give any significant enhancement to strength, or speed?


Longer arm = more torque? But I'm sure it's slower.
posted by nathancaswell at 11:31 AM on March 9, 2011

3:44 - A quantum leap forward in bouncer/doorman technology.
posted by djrock3k at 11:41 AM on March 9, 2011 [1 favorite]

Is this for a movie, or just a fun project? The fake rocket on the arm makes me guess the former, but I can't read Japanese.
posted by KGMoney at 11:47 AM on March 9, 2011

Also, it's not an exoskeleton until it encases you. This is more of a pantoskeleton.

It's behind you!
posted by longbaugh at 12:04 PM on March 9, 2011

So it makes you slower, bulkier and less stable. With a water rocket.
posted by gottabefunky at 12:22 PM on March 9, 2011

The water-rocket nacelles gave me the lol.

Also, I now want a rubber leek.
posted by Slap*Happy at 12:47 PM on March 9, 2011

So it makes you slower, bulkier and less stable.

You seem to have forgotten "taller". Also, never underestimate the value of an arm mounted water rocket.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 1:37 PM on March 9, 2011

I'll keep laughing at this ridiculous contraption until they combine it with this not-so-ridiculous contraption. Then I will do everything in my power to stay out of its way.
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 1:42 PM on March 9, 2011

This would have been a lot better with Del Toro directing, an R rating, and a $150 million budget.
posted by newdaddy at 3:00 PM on March 9, 2011

"First time I tried moving in it, it broke my arm. Never again."
posted by radiosilents at 4:52 PM on March 9, 2011 [2 favorites]