DARPA Legged Squad Support System (LS3)

The LS3 platform is designed with the squad in mind and is therefore significantly quieter, faster and has a much higher carrying capacity (+100lbs) for longer mission durations than DARPA’s earlier mobility technology demonstrator BigDog By DARPA/Boston Dynamics, who also brought us BigDog (also see this spoof), LittleDog and AlphaDog (again, via teusje)

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A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. Utterly brilliant video. Awesome idea, very well executed! Soundtrack by The Cinematic Orchestra, …