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Tesla's Elon Musk Goes 'Iron Man' With In-Thin-Air, Gestural Design Process

Posted August 24, 2013 5:20 PM

From Crave: gorgeous gadgets and other crushworthy stuff. - CNET:

As if a sexy electric car; a sideways-flying, reusable rocket ship; an 800 mph subway; and a Martian metropolis weren't enough, mad scientist Elon Musk now wants to build an "Iron Man" suit. Well, not exactly. But the film was apparently the inspiration for Musk's latest foray into science nonfiction. The Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO tweeted on Friday that he and his people have "figured out how to design rocket parts just w hand movements through the air" and that next week he'll be posting a video that demonstrates the process.

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08/25/2013 12:59 AM

One wonders what Marcel Marceau could have designed....

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08/26/2013 12:53 PM

I doubt he would have talked to anyone about it, in any case.

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08/27/2013 3:42 PM

LOL

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