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Stephen Hawking's hulking prosthetic suit (with menacing robo-claw)

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Wired has a gallery up of sculptor Michael Rea's science fiction designs made out of wood. He has everything from crazy transports to wacky guns and — as you can see above — a massive and menacing mech designed for the finest mind mankind has ever produced, Stephen Hawking. The suit, titled A Prosthetic Suit For Stephen Hawking with Japanese Steel, is a tribute to Hawking as Rea is a huge fan of the theoretical physicist and has enjoyed his comical appearances on shows such as The Simspons and Futurama.

The eight-foot-tall, 300-pound suit isn't simply an inert sculpture, either. There's a hatch located at the rear of the unit for someone to crawl in. The mech's got a huge fist and a rather scary looking gripper, just in case Hawking has to get theoretically physical on some science-hating punks.

Click Continue to see the backside of Rea's A Prosthetic Suit For Stephen Hawking with Japanese Steel.

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Via Wired

 
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Almanac:
...According to The Omniverse Almanac, Johnny Depp is actually one of the few very cool people inhabiting this plan...More »


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By zentinal at 8:22 AM ON 08/05/08

As usual, predicted by "The Onion", over 10 years ago. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39133

By Almanac at 7:56 AM ON 08/11/08

...According to The Omniverse Almanac, Johnny Depp is actually one of the few very cool people inhabiting this planet, along with Steven Splielberg, Riccardo Mariti, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake, Angelina Jolie, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawkings, Laurence Dale, the Dalai Lama...


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