In the past, if you wanted to be able
to be able to lift more weight you
would have to spend months
bulking up at the gym. Now, with a
new invention from a group of
design students at the University of
Pennsylvania, you can just strap on
an external bicep and you are ready
to go. The bionic device, called the
Titan Arm, is the brainchild of four
mechanical engineering students
who, in their final undergraduate
year, built an upper-body
exoskeleton that can be used in
physical therapy and manual labor.
The invention won its inventors $
10,000 in the Cornell Cup for
Innovation and has recently been
shortlisted for the 2013 Dyson
award. The Titan Arm straps directly
to a user's right arm to help lift
heavy objects that the user
wouldn't normally be able to lift. Its
inventors believe that it will be
useful in aiding physical
rehabilitation, both for people who
have suffered upper body injuries
and for those with pre-existing
muscular-skeletal disorders. The
Titan Arm's inventors say the
exoskeleton can also be used by
people whose jobs require heavy
lifting such as warehouse workers,
removalists and couriers...the rest is on my website.

One step closer to the first Ironman armour.

exactly! byt it will probably be expensive to mass produce