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Perhaps you damaged your knee and you’ve been laid up for 6 weeks straight in bed?  Or perhaps you just returned from a 6 month space exploration and your muscles are beyond atrophied?  The M310 AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill is the answer to your woes.

An inflatable plastic air bags surrounds your body that supports up to 80% of your body’s weight and assists athletes and astronauts to recoup lost muscle tissue.  Max speed of the M310 is 8mph and costs a mere $24,500.  Alternatively, the company behind the space age machine offers a NASA version for $70,000 and tops out at 18mph.  Despite the price it does look more practical than the hyrdo Physio Treadmill we saw earlier this year.

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NASA is about to change the helicopter blade as we know it.  First off, you need to understand that the current blade setup is very inefficient.  Each blade, as it passes through air, creates turbulence which for the lack of better words is a challenge for the following blade.  As a result, fuel efficiency is cut as is power and myriad of other things.  To quell this problem NASA embedded piezoelectric actuators – material that shape shifts when infused with electricity – which is just a complicated way of saying that the blades are able to adapt to a given set of instructions.  End result, assuming they’re programmed with the correct frequency, NASA’s new helicopter blades will be able to cancel out the interference and result in a more efficient helicopter.

[FastCompany]