GiTS: Sac and/or Futurama future closer to reality

[Funkatron]

Alcohol powered artificial muscles (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1734321,00.html)

Cool Bender meets the Major :p

[shoujoaifan]

Awesome! Hmmm, if those muscles need to "breathe", how would they go about that? Some kind of skin that air could go throught? Or some kind of vent?

It could be like the arm vents from the Saber Marionette series, but in reverse:instead of bellowing out steam when overheated, it would be sucking air in, or perhaps both, since these things also have got to create heat if they break down alcohol and hydrogen.

And of course the interaction between the brain and prosthetics is still vastly limited for the time being (but steadily improving), so we're not going to get anything realistic yet, but this is definately a big step in the right direction.