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Eating right? Exercising? Forget that. Just get yourself a cool muscle shirt from Funkybod. These fake muscle tops are for wearing under another shirt so that you can look ripped and awesome without any health food or exercise. That’s a big win. You need something to hide those moobs and this is it.

According to its makers:

The Funkybod undershirt is designed to enhance your natural physique. Because of the way it is designed, there is a marked improvement in the look if the wearer has the typical visual manboob issues when wearing a shirt. This was not the intended market for the Funkybod muscle top. Initially, it was designed to enhance the upper body muscle groups of skinny to medium build men. After initial trials we found that some of the smaller men had manboob issues which were covered well with the Funkybod muscle top. This led us to experiment with larger men and look into the manboob issue further.

Features of the Funkybod muscle top:

• Chest plates giving a pumped look
• Shoulder plates to give a broader look
• Bicep plates giving bigger biceps
• Tricep plates giving bigger triceps
• Feels realistic to the touch

Turn those man boobs into muscle the way nature intended – with a shirt! I doubt that it feels as realistic as they say. The important thing is that it makes me look good to the ladies. Until I take my shirt off anyway. Oh well.

Layer one of these on top to complete the illusion.

[via Gizmodo via Geekologie]

Other than a few models from Boston Dynamics, most robots don’t exactly leave us quaking in fear. That might be off the table soon, though, thanks to a breakthrough from researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS). They’ve developed polymer-derived artificial muscles that can stretch out up to five times in length, enabling them to lift 80 times their weight. That could one day result in life-like robots with “superhuman strength and ability,” which could also run on very little power, according to the team. They expect to have a robotic limb that could smack down any human in arm-wrestling within five years — putting a possible cyborg version of Over The Top alarmingly within reach.

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