Japanese Lunavity jetpike helps jump high and far
With you again the heading "what these Japanese once again". At the SXSW 2018 in Austin, a team of students from the University of Tokyo presented a prototype Lunavity knapsack, with which a person can jump two or three times higher than usual and smoothly sink to the ground. It's like imitating the weak gravity of the moon, for which the gadget got its name.
How it works?
Now it looks like this
When a user puts on a jet pack, he has a system of rounded screws above his head. They are pulling the body upwards, increasing the physical capabilities of man. To test the prototype Lunavity journalists were not given because of the lack of permits to use the device in the US (at least, so say the creators themselves).
The final design of the device is shown in a promo published earlier. Described in the same scenarios of use are more like a joke of humor: a game of basketball with jumps under the ceiling (only on the ground such a thing can accidentally zashibit teammates), "flight" of the road (as if in the air can not encounter another such original) and replacement wheelchairs (in everyday life jetpak will create no less problems, and exoskeletons will be more reliable). Then why? Just because it's fun!
When to expect?
The estimated time of release and the price of Lunavity are not reported. No matter how strange the development of Japanese engineers seemed, without such dreamers the Earth would be a boring and dull place.
