The process of making a hand-made walking stick, with crooked handle takes 4 steps to finish. First, is shaping handle. This step involves cutting material to a rough shape, exposing it to heat and rasping it into shape. Next is preparing shank – main body of stick. After collecting hazel shanks over winter, they are stored in rafters to dry. A suitable shank is selected from among dried ones and it is straightened using heat and pressure. Third step is joining together handle and shank. This is done securely by a steel rod glued into hazel shank and crooked handle. Then, handle is rasped down to fit shank and final shaping is done. The final step involves shaping stick by applying various grades of files and abrasives on handle. Indeed, this process is time consuming but this is also vital since it ensures production of a high quality stick. After files, polish is applied and then – enjoy fine stick produced!

These walking sticks are really high quality because of personal handcrafting care applied to it. Though it takes time to produce, knowing that it’s sturdy and durable enough to last for years to come is well worth effort! -30-

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This suit offers high hopes as a walking aid or rehabilitation tool for elderly or disabled individuals with reduced physical strength. This is because this lower-body suit provides support by moving in a manner that virtually duplicates wearer’s will. The suit can also perform preprogrammed actions. This feature offers an array of potential applications, like sports training. In using this suit in this scenario, muscle signals from an elite athlete would first be input into device. By doing this, users could directly experience movements of athlete once they put on suit. This experience would help them get more out of their training. For boosting arm strength, Sankai and his team also plan to develop an upper-body suit. There are many useful potential applications upper-body suit.

Mitsui and Co., along with a group of small businesses in Ota Ward, Tokyo was attracted by Sankai and his team’s work on suits. Tokyo is known as a hive of innovative business activity and firms there agreed to cooperate with University of Tsukuba in developing suits to next level. As of now, many other organizations, with academia are involved in developing more types of power suits. -30-

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