PeachPie 🍑'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
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I wonder if I should get some of these, then ride my e-bike with them…
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I’ve always been at the forefront of human progress
skrlet13I wanted one of those when I was little… (not really) hidden wheels
Same. Was denied them by parents (probably wisely, I don’t judge).
Imagine my disappointment when I could finally buy them with my own money at 17yo, only to find out that models don’t exist in anything but smaller kids’ sizes.
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TrackinDaKrakenI remember when Segway was going to “change human mobility”.
Are these to help one jump off a cliff?
No, thanks.
I’ll develop my own muscles for free, and avoid the subscription fee, battery charging, replacement after two years, and other such bullshit.
One step closer to a brain in a bucket. Is that what you want to be?
First off, it’d be a jar…
massive_bereavementThe jar is premium.
It also breaks my workflow. I use OpenBucket and while sometimes leaves fall in, at least the rain keeps me topped up.
Isn’t that their choice to make?
teftYou need an app to change between walking and running? That’ll be fun when you sprinting and then trip and your feet keep flopping like fish until you turn them off.
I’m curious to see how this develops, like please give me Chel from Portal jump-legs at some stage, please.
But after speaking to physios and doctors and hearing how like just a couple millimeters of difference between your gait positioning or hip flexion while you walk or run over time can lead to major consequences with joint wear or tendon damage (etc)… This feels like it’s bound to go wrong with the machine aggressively forcing your knee up and foot down every step.
apfelwoiSchoppenThis is not going to let me outrun a car and jump a building, does it?
JustEnoughDucksLol now corpos are trying to monatize and monopolize walking.
What do they want our bodies and minds so frail using bionics and AI everywhere that without paying a subscription, we literally couldn’t leave the house?
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These remind me of a time when French shepherds walked on stilts to overcome swampy landscape.
The modern equivalent would be stilts to “walk over” lanes of stroads, since the stilts could land on the lane dividers and thus provide uninhibited, elevated urban travel. Just don’t fall.
I jest, but that would be a solving a real issue, where crosswalks at stroads take forever and a half.
stroads should never have existed. its literally the worst thing even when driving.
Stroads are best understood as a product of emergent evolution. That is to say, no thinking went into their development, except as incremental, thoughtless upgrades from what was probably once a rural country road.
The only good thing about stroads is that when they’re demolished and rebuilt properly, there’s usually enough room to build an express two-lane road, or two-way busway, or dual-track light rail line, plus room for adjacent frontage/access roads for local traffic.
The land and technology exists to build things properly, but often not the political and community will.
A hip or knee exoskeleton would probably do better on a bike than these ankle things, but it’ll be fun stuff to watch the inevitable videos of people using all three to run up the Niesen stairs.
Could these be used to correct poor form when walking or running?
Probably better to train that problem out, but it might for some issues?
But then how will I get shin splints trying to keep up with people who walk just faster than my top walking speed??
And if everyone has them, how can I feel superior by being faster than them because of the years of shin splints???
Spring loaded stilts!