Superhumans In the Making

This is so cool. I found an article on Wired. It talks about some pretty amazing stuff the government is doing to enhance human abilities.

Imagine you’re in a room with high humidity, 104 degree heat, and to top it off, you’re running on a treadmill. Even a healthy person would be challenged.

But then walks in someone who’s about to make everything better. He puts your hands in a device resembling that of a coffee pot. A switch is flipped, your hand starts to cool, and because there’s a vacuum inside this “glove” it’s cooling the blood that’s being pulled to the surface of your hand which in turn cools the rest of your body. In a few minutes, you feel renewed and able to continue running in place.

Where do I sign up for one of these things?

This “wonder glove” has been recorded to enhance other people. For example, between sets of pull-ups (I hate those things), a man was able to increase his repetitions from 100 to 600 over a 12-week period.

In fact, test results indicate that muscles tire from being overheated and not because stores of sugar have been depleted, which is the common theory. Essentially, this device speeds up the cooling your body already does by sweating.

Other research includes staying alive while having your blood reduced by 60 percent (lab mice, not humans…yet), better digestion where people could eat normally inedible things and still benefit from it, and building exoskeletons enabling wearers to carry increased weight over longer periods of time.

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