Suit that mimics life at age 85 has no creases, just creaks

Ugo Dumont, a volunteer for the Genworth R70i Aging Experience, participates in a demonstration at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, April 5, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

JERSEY CITY, NJ: With the push of a button, a perfectly healthy 34-year-old museum-goer named Ugo Dumont was transformed into a confused 85-year-old man with cataracts, glaucoma and a ringing in his ears known as tinnitus.

Dumont had volunteered at Liberty Science Center on April 5 to don a computer-controlled exoskeleton that can be remotely manipulated to debilitate joints, vision and hearing and shared with the crowd what ageing feels like decades before his time.