Bounce Technologies

PowerSkip is the next stop in our exploration of the Human-Technology-Fun (H-T-F) connection. In order to understand the ramifications of it all, we once again find ourselves looking at a video of the thing in action.

Clearly, the PowerSkipper who is featured in the video is somewhat of an athlete. Which is the very thing that fills one with the implications of it all. With enough training, and padding, PowerSkipping athletes could redefine the very nature of just about any sport you can think of, except maybe golf. And bowling. And billiards. Think about what would happen if such devices were worn in a game of basketball, or even football and soccer. The heights. The spectacle. The grace and death-defyingness of it all.

PowerSkip is not the only technology for putting more bounce in your step. There are, for example, the significantly similar, but clearly different Bionic Boots and Poweriser, and the less bouncy, but perhaps more practically fun Kangoo Jumps - any of which fairly reeking with sports-transforming implications.