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"The creators of a new clothing line featuring underwear and running shorts aim to help women feel safer on the streets.\nAR Wear has been working on a anti-rape garments that women can wear discreetly, underneath their normal clothing. The idea is that customers can wear the AR underwear, for example, with a dress and leave for a night on the town feeling, potentially, a bit more secure.\nSee also: Indian Students Develop Anti-Rape Underwear With Electric Shocks\nThe company designed the underwear with specific locks that keep it safely and tightly on the user and make it difficult for a stranger to forcibly remove it. The \"skeleton structure,\" as the company's video describes, functions on certain parts of the garment to add protection by making those parts harder to move.\nA set of so-called thigh locks make it so that the material over the leg openings are difficult to move after the user snaps them in place. The center of the underwear's waistband also contains a lock which only opens when a wearer sets two notches to a specific position, like the hands of a clock. Each pair of underwear is assigned a position out of up to 132 different combinations.\n\nMashable spoke with a representative of the company, who preferred the focus to stay on the product versus the identities of the people behind it. Ruth and Yuval, the main creators of the project, therefore declined to give their last names on the campaign or elsewhere.\n\"Our goal is to get a product out there that might be used by some people and prevent some rapes,\" said Ruth. \"And possibly even make more awareness of the problems of rape culture.\"\nThe clothing adds new features to already existing clothing items so that women can incorporate them into an outfit. \n\"Basically you're putting in some straps and webbing that can't be cut ... and you connect that with the center panel and you miraculously end up with something that is comfortable,\" said Ruth. \"And that was the really tricky part.\"\nAR Wear currently features underwear and running shorts and the creators hope to apply the same techniques to \"traveling shorts\" in the future.\nThe team's Indiegogo campaign had raised $2,080 at time of writing, out of its $50,000 goal, with 28 days to go. Donations of $25 yield a 10% discount on any AR Wear purchase and a $100 contribution gives the largest discount of 30% per garment. The project, however, will only be funded if it reaches its goal.\nThe clothing line debut has not been without controversy, however. Aside from raising questions about whether or not it would even be effective during an assault, the Daily Dot points out that such an invention \"subtly shifts the responsibility for avoiding rape from the attacker to the victim,\" among other problems. \nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\nBONUS: 9 Robotic Inventions That Are Already Among Us\n\n\n9 Robotic Inventions That Already Exist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Giant robot debuts in Japan\nA Japanese inventor created a giant, Mech-like robot controlled from within. The machine, called Kuratas, stands 13 feet tall and is capable of speeds of up to 6 mph.  (via Reuters)\n\nVideo: YouTube, Reuters TV\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Students Build Award-Winning Robot Exoskeleton\nThe Titan Arm is a robotic upper-body exoskeleton that could be applied to rehabilitation and extra lifting power.\n\nVideo: YouTube, WSJDigitalNetwork\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Japanese robot suit offers hope for nuclear work\nBrain-wave controlled robot suits that allow wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight are unveiled in Japan.\n\nVideo: YouTube, AFP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Robot Exoskeleton: Power Loader\nHere's a robotic exoskeleton that helps its users lift incredible weight.\n\nVideo: YouTube, Diagonal View\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Lockheed's Bionic Exoskeleton a Super-Human Reality\nCheck out Lockheed Martin's new bionic suit that could make you larger than life.  (via Bloomberg)\n\nVideo: YouTube, Bloomberg\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Agent Phil Coulson Meets XOS 2\nClark Gregg, the actor known for his recurring role in the Iron Man movies, was on hand to witness the unveiling of the XOS 2 robotic suit at the Raytheon Sarcos research facility in Salt Lake City\n\nVideo: YouTube, raytheoncompany\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Man Builds His Own Bionic Hands\nAfter losing his hands in a freak accident, a Chinese man built himself a new pair of hands that allow him to work, drive his motorcycle, eat and drink.\n\nVideo: YouTube, Diagonal View\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons\nEythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS -- robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200 pounds without tiring, or allow a wheelchair user to stand and walk.  (via TED)\n\nVideo: YouTube, TEDtalksDirector\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. HRP-4 Humanoid Robot Walking Like A Real Human\nWatch this robot walk like a real human. \n\nVideo: YouTube, selinasong\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages: AR Wear\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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