http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1072
Japan has to face the growing old of an everincreasing number of people and not enough staff to care for them ; Japanese scientist prototype a power suit for nurses to wear, that is to say a suit that demultiplies your strength by a factor of 2, thus allowing nurses to carry old persons and flip them on bed effortless..
Article here
http://images.livescience.com/images/060928_powersuit_diagram_02.jpg
Video Demo here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdTw2dBXQw