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I posted this idea 10 years ago at my own site:
(lost on the internet it was called inventive: deep and interesting and was hosted in Geocities...)
Among other ideas, I had this idea to have a contraption to assist the knees while running, enhancing the speed and load possible with running. You have
a hydraulic or mechanical addition to your leg, so when you push up or down it gives much more power to the push. This would work best with special boots so you can jump out the window on third floor. Ever since: A. website lost. B. several movies made showing this concept. and C. found recent university study doing exactly that (with video...). See link below.
Hope to find my site some day.
Anyways, in the meantime here are a few additions to this idea: A. Running together with your family synchronized at same speed. B. Hopping mode (like a frog). C. Personal airbag for runner's safety. D. A much simpler device with no hydraulics, just mechanical, so after you pick up a fridge, you fix it in mid air, and can stay there for an hour. (or release your knees, and go home) . This one would work with a tightening screw.
Please see the links below for a better description.
Moshe Flam (pashute = Hebrew for SIMPLE)
// NASA made a $1M pen that works without gravity.
// The cosmonauts went to outer space with a pencil.
artificial muscle
http://ndeaa.jpl.na...EAP-Newsletter.html
(not what I was looking for but interesting too) [pashute, Jun 22 2002]
another one I wasn't looking for
http://www.callisto...2000/PDF/Fl_106.pdf
PDF file showing artificial assistance to muscles... [pashute, Jun 22 2002]
Finally found it! Yobotics' Leg Amplifier
http://yobotics.com/index.html
A leg amplifier. They have video showing it working. I envisioned families running with it synchronized by radio. [pashute, Jun 22 2002]
hydraulic pogo stick
http://www.post-gaz...528bowgohealth2.asp
I would call my invention The Pogo Knee, much safer and easier to use... [pashute, Jun 22 2002]
Spring boots
http://www.powerskip.de/mainpage.html
What I mentioned in my previous annotation. With a tip o' the hat to [DrBob] for the term. [phoenix, Jun 25 2002]
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Calum, thanks. Yobotics site shows it all, so no need to explain further. Google did not exist. I'm sure site's still up somewhere.
I Added the extra ideas to this. Besides you could use the same idea on the arms, so if you got someone really mad and they wanna punch you, you catch their hand and quietly return it to it's place. |
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Seems to me the idea no longer counts as novel, even if you did think of it first. |
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Your correct Dr. But I added the rest of my ideas (had 10 years to think about it). Moshe |
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I have two of these that operate on cruise control. They're overridden by a sharp blow to the underknee area. |
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There is a device (not the Yobotics one) that fits like a shoe, but acts like a giant leaf spring. One fits to each foot and they raise the user about 1' off the ground. They work by absorbing and returning the force of the user's touchdown. I can't find a link for it now, but I'll post one later if I find one. |
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That said, what good would an artificial knee do if all the remaining force would have to be absorbed by the foot-calf-thigh? I envision this device snapping a femur on its first run (pun not intended). |
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Good idea. You'd definitely need spring loaded boots (Seven league boots?) to absorb the landing shock and assist with take-off, plus some form of mid air stabilisation - a big pair of vulture wings should do the trick. |
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