Engineering genius? Hardly
Artistic brilliance? Yes indeed.
The late George and Charlotte Blonsky (New York City and San Jose, California) invented a device (US Patent #3,216,423) to aid women in giving birth -- the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed.
The guys from techeblog.com "have compiled a list of five gadgets that you can actually wear, in addition to being shiny toys. " This are a few gadgets that they choose.
Wearable Robot Suit
Researchers at Japan’s Tsukuba University have developed a Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) that allows anyone who wears it, the “potential to lift up to 10-times the weight they normally could.” It basically works by “figuring out what the wearer’s muscle are doing.”
“It depends on his original power, because this robot suit is controlled by the assist ratio,” says Yoshiyuki Sankai of Tsukuba University. “Usually we set it at 50% or 60% or 70%. If he is a very weak person we set the assist ratio at 90%, so at that time you say 10 times.”
hmm.. 100k pounds in tuning for a 1972 car.. nice! 
