Decosee: Boulder Wall

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Boulder Wall

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an Army veteran uses the DEKA arm system to scale a near-vertical rock wall. The prosthetic device is affectionately called "Luke" after Luke Skywalker of "Star Wars" fame, according to the DEKA Research and Development Corporation. The project was Thus began her five-year walk back home to her “singing river.” Today, just off the Natchez Trace Parkway, visitors can find a freestanding rock wall fashioned from eight and a half million pounds of sandstone and limestone rock, extending for one mile An awesome bionic arm from DEKA recently helped one military vet do something traditional prosthetics wouldn't allow him to do -- hit the rock-climbing wall again. As seen in the video above, released this week, the US Army veteran tried the DEKA arm at a "Grand Canyon Experience" climbing wall was centerpiece of Super Bowl party Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee gave wall to city of Phoenix for its residents to use The city says it's unclear where the 30-by-100 foot will be placed and when residents can use it Imagine how difficult it is to climb a rock wall. Now think of how much more challenging that would be with just one arm. That's what happens in a DARPA video that shows how one U.S. Army amputee was able to make an ascent with help from an electric We had this ugly 1970's Faux Rock or Lava Rock Wall. We watched some videos on the internet and thought this would be easy enough to remove. We could not have been more wrong. This was by far the most challenging DIY project we have completed. Unlike the .

Among them, Rock, Latifah, Questlove, BET executive Stephen Hill and Extra host A.J. Calloway — who all danced to Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" along with other non-celebs in the crowd. The outside of 23 Wall Street was a bit chaotic The parks and recreation department will add a climbing wall and jump platform where visitors can scale a 9-foot synthetic rock-climbing wall and jump into the pool below. Atkins said the parks department previously discussed the project with teens and Two men have died after falling from a rock wall they were scaling in San Antonio. Police say it appears the unidentified men were rappelling down a climbing area known as Medicine Wall in north San Antonio late Monday night when they fell to their deaths. The DARPA-funded DEKA Arm System is an amazingly life-like prosthetic arm controlled directly by electric signals from the muscles. It's the first such prosthetic available to the general public. And it can help you climb a rock wall like a badass. .