I'd like to wear a pair of those weighted wrist bands. After a few days typing with a pair on, one would probably have rippling arm muscles and shoulders like a buffalo. But the snag is they're so thick and prominent they look ridiculous.
Someone needs to design a more slimline discrete pair, ideally using the densest known metal, osmium. The trouble is that gives off deadly vapours when exposed to oxygen, so you'd have to coat it with an inert metal such as gold. Also, pure osmium is hellishly expensive ($100 per gram according to that link). So a pair of 15 kilogram osmium wrist bands would cost at least $3,000,000.
But most of the expense arises from separating osmium from the almost chemically and physically identical element iridium, and osmiridium alloy is not much more expensive than gold.
On second thoughts, perhaps a pair of gold-coated depleted uranium wrist bands would be cheaper (and the radiation would keep one's wrists nice and warm
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Someone needs to design a more slimline discrete pair, ideally using the densest known metal, osmium. The trouble is that gives off deadly vapours when exposed to oxygen, so you'd have to coat it with an inert metal such as gold. Also, pure osmium is hellishly expensive ($100 per gram according to that link). So a pair of 15 kilogram osmium wrist bands would cost at least $3,000,000.
But most of the expense arises from separating osmium from the almost chemically and physically identical element iridium, and osmiridium alloy is not much more expensive than gold.
On second thoughts, perhaps a pair of gold-coated depleted uranium wrist bands would be cheaper (and the radiation would keep one's wrists nice and warm
)
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