Apparently the Onion satirical newspaper was way ahead of its time with their 1997 article, "Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton" - from ridiculous far-out joke to physical reality (sort of) in 13 years ... <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-robotic-exoskeleton,1629/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-robo...</a>