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Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« on: May 16, 2017, 10:06:17 AM »
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2017, 10:17:35 AM »
Now all we need is to find the Alien Queen and we'll have one hell of a battle.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2017, 10:25:07 AM »
Not quite the Caterpillar P5000 yet.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2017, 10:30:43 AM »
Quote from: Ben on May 16, 2017, 10:06:17 AM
This was interesting. For one thing, I had no idea Lowes had a research lab.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/05/16/lowes-is-building-exoskeleton-that-gives-warehouse-workers-superhuman-strength.html

If you'll click through to the release, they've partnered with Virginia Tech. So it's not a stand-alone effort by their research lab. Still quite amazing. 
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2017, 10:34:43 AM »
Maybe you can rent them once they have them perfected.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2017, 10:49:28 AM »
Quote from: Ben on May 16, 2017, 10:06:17 AM
This was interesting. For one thing, I had no idea Lowes had a research lab.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/05/16/lowes-is-building-exoskeleton-that-gives-warehouse-workers-superhuman-strength.html

Hmm..  Interesting.

My brother (and briefly, my middle son) worked for a while at a Lowe's regional warehouse hereabouts.  The warehouse workers were mostly a bunch of lowlifes, with strict attendance and breakage limits.  Both ran afoul of these rules, and were out.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2017, 11:30:44 AM »
It says it is not powered, but stiffens in some directions and uses springs to store energy in some way.  I envision a new breed of lawsuits where people trained at work to lift with assistance are injured at home when they try to lift a similar load without the suit.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2017, 11:57:08 AM »
Quote from: griz on May 16, 2017, 11:30:44 AM
It says it is not powered, but stiffens in some directions and uses springs to store energy in some way.  I envision a new breed of lawsuits...


Now, here I was thinking that you had coined an awesome new use of the word for mecha-suits used for police "lawsuits"...

Quote from: griz on May 16, 2017, 11:30:44 AM
...where people trained at work to lift with assistance are injured at home when they try to lift a similar load without the suit.

And then was disappointed that you were using it conventionally.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2017, 12:29:19 PM »
Now that you mention it, I'm kind of ashamed of myself for missing the opportunity.  I could have at least squeezed a pun in there somehow.  Oh well, we all have our highs and Lowes.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2017, 02:41:15 PM »
This is truly Lowes humor.
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Re: Lowes Employees to Get Super Powers
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2017, 07:12:46 PM »
Quote from: makattak on May 16, 2017, 11:57:08 AM


Now, here I was thinking that you had coined an awesome new use of the word for mecha-suits used for police "lawsuits"...

Lawsuit?
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