by E. Paul Zehr
strength training, 177
stress: effects of on body, 82
performance and, 76–77, 77
stretch reflexes, 31, 32
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 149
Suminski, Aaron, 107
superheroes: as superhuman, 120
viewed as “possible,” 154–55. See also specific characters
Superman, 115–16
supertaskers, 75
supplementary motor area of brain, 55
surfaces for walking or running, 32–33
Surrogates (movie), 13
synaesthesia, 101
synapses, 23, 24
Tales of Suspense: #39 (1963), xii, 8, 9, 91, 128, 182
#40 (1963), xiii–xiv, 9
#48 (1963), 9–10, 182
Tarnak farm incident in Afghanistan, 122–23
Taylor, Charlotte, 50
telepresence armor. See Neuromimetic Telepresence Unit (NTU-150) armor
temporal lobe, 49
Terminator, 4
texting while driving, 72
therapeutic electrical stimulation, 39
thermoregulation, 81
thoracic region of spine and spinal cord, 21, 22
Thorbuster armor, 11
thoughts, transforming into actions of machines, 37–38
Three Laws of Robotics (Asimov), 129–30
tibia, 29
tools, use of, 108–9
Touch Bionics, 43, 44
training to use armor: exercise, 177–78
level of, and multitasking, 73, 75–79
time needed, 155, 159–60, 161–62
type needed, 162–65
transcranial magnetic stimulation, 55–56, 57
tremor, physiological, 25
Ultimate Iron Man (Card), 101, 120
Ultimate Iron Man (vol. 1, 2006), 131
upper motor neurons, 54, 56
Urban, Karl, 81–82
Valentin, Leo, 138
Vanko, Ivan “Whiplash” (character), 74, 130, 179
video game controllers, 58
virtual environments, human interaction with, 13
vision, as primary sense, 101, 106
Vogel, Steven, 25
Volta, Alessandro, 50
von Berlichingen, Gottfried (Götz, Iron Hand), 27, 28
WalkAide, 40–42, 41
walking: arm movement in, 151
center of mass, 34
description of, 31–33
enhancing performance when, 35–36
in force field, 93
leg springs, 34
Lokomat, 87–88, 89, 90, 91
retraining for, 90–91
ReWalk, 87, 162
stretch reflexes, 32
War Machine (graphic novel), 46, 47, 61
War Machine armor: depiction of, 78
description of, 77–79
given to Air Force, 152
in Iron Man 2, 156–57. See also Rhodes, Jim “War Machine”
Warwick, Kevin, 38
Watson, James, 74–75
Wayne, Bruce (character), 119
Weber, Doug, 160–61
weight, muscle output based on, 25
Weyand, Peter, 33
Whiplash. See Vanko, Ivan “Whiplash”
whiplash, risks of, 166–67, 168, 169–72
Williams, David, 109–10, 142
Willis, Thomas, 50
wing chun, 165
Wolf, David, 109, 110
Wolpaw, Jon, 56, 159–60
Wong-Chu (character), xiii, 182
Yinsen, Ho (character), xiii, 128, 147, 151, 152
