Useful Mini-Helicopter

Yale has add an awesome feature to our beloved remote control helicopters.  It's called the Yale Aerial Manipulator, and it has the ability to grab things from the ground.  I know, mind blowing, right? Well it should be! How often do you see a remote control helicopter with the ability to pick things up. Well, not very often I would think.

Moving on, this thing can go 80 MPH, and swoop down to pick up your beer! Now how do you like it? It's all in the vid, check it out.


 

Via io9 (Linkage)

Power Generating Backpack

 

This backpack seems like a really useful idea. I remember all those shows about the next-new-super-soldier.  They had all this high-tech equipment that would do all these cool things with helping the soldier, but the only problem was that they had to carry either an ass-load of batteries, or re-power all the time.  So this seems like a way around the power shortage problem, but I don't know how much of a charge this backpack can generate.  I wonder if they could add some solar panels, yeah it'd probably look stupid, but it might help.

Via ubergizmo