[tt] MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit

[Brian Atkins]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/16/2024242

"MIT aeronautics professor Dava Newman has designed a new spacesuit along with 
her colleague, Jeff Hoffman and a group of students. This is far sleeker and 
lighter weight than the suits used by astronauts today, promising greater 
mobility than the traditional bulky suits of today which can weigh 300lbs or 
more. Instead of gas pressurization, the new prototype BioSuit employs 
"mechanical counter-pressure" in the form of skin-tight layers wrapped around 
the body."

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html

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Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/