Worn over the legs with a harness that reaches up the back and around the shoulders, X1 has 10 degrees of freedom, or joints -- four motorized joints at the hips and the knees, and six passive joints that allow for sidestepping, turning and pointing, and flexing a foot.
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Finally, we were dazzled by two high-tech garments that harness LEDs to light up the night.
Some innovative new organizations (including those mentioned above) have sprung up to harness this opportunity.
Albert is mesmerized by Old Peg, and the next morning helps hitch up the harness for his horse and buggy.
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The trick is not getting kids to sit still, but coming up with ways to harness all that energy.
And our job is to harness those ideas, to lift up best practices, to hold states and schools accountable for making them work.
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Plans for tidal power in Swansea Bay were first mooted in 2003 when a charity wanted to harness the tides to provide electricity for up to 10, 000 homes.
In 1892 an ambitious irrigation engineer and hustler named Charles Robinson Rockwood came up with the first plan to harness the river's wealth, a canal that would funnel water into a dried-out riverbed, irrigating the surrounding desert.
In Iceland, meanwhile, a consortium of utilities is teaming up to do just the opposite: harness steam that is much hotter than the norm.
But the bottom line is this: Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy.
Mr Gutierrez is the first candidate to harness the growing political power of the Indians, who make up about a quarter of Ecuador's population of 12m.
Spencer is a freshman computer science major at Michigan State University who hopes to harness his entrepreneurial spirit to someday build and run his own software start-up.
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