San Francisco Bay the Waterfront is a real draw for people looking for some exercise from Walkers to
Joggers to hardcore Marathoners people like to stretch their limbs
and then theres this guy
Most humans will look at a bird and dream of flying
I myself looked at the ostrich and dreamed of how a human can run faster
My name is key I see more I'm in the inventor and founder of the bonnet boot [his] geared as the transportation
[Fitness] device of the future
Today he's testing [his] life's work over rough terrain on the hills of Marin County. I about the Golden Gate bridge
[as] I'm running I feel catapulted into the air almost like an animal or a superhero, so it's a feeling of a boots
It's less like a trampoline more like a catapult, so [in] each stride [liebherr]
Catapult ooh almost at A 45-degree angle
quite exhilarating
Keahi is bent on stretching his limbs and his limits initially the boot was inspired by fast land animals in the way they store
elastic energy in their [tendon] specifically achilles tendons this boot replicates that are you so natural rubber Springs here and
as the boot Runs
there's a pivoted lever which then flexes the
tension Springs at the Back which store the energy
They model them on Ostrich legs the fastest bipedal animal on Earth
I want to look at its physiology in terms of its bone and tendon structure and also in terms of how fast they run
the length of the boot gives you increased stride length
So this stride length will also increase speeds for example the ostrich itself has a stride length of 20 to 25 foot mine
Currently is that 10 to 12 foot?
I want to increase that so I can achieve the speed of an ostrich of 45 miles an hour. It's a dream
He's chased for almost 20 years. [I] made the first prototype when I was 18 years old
[I] had no idea if it would work all my friends were laughing at the old concept and the prototype itself
Back then I used Bungee Cord
Just wrapped around as a form of spring, but as I took the first few steps
It was quite exhilarating to feel the power in each stride being snapped it did break after a few strides
But it was a first step along the road to what we see here today
That road was anything but smooth, but he was determined to overcome the bumps one prototype at a time
So what you see [here] is the evolution of the bionic boot starting with some of the original prototypes all these steps, right?
Here you see are basically to reduce the weight of the boot we can see
Previous versions of the Spring itself will use a bungee cord from using natural rubber from Speargun tubing as you see here
slightly rudimentary
So just a long stretch of cord wrapped around this is the 2008 version you see here were almost
15 17 inches off the ground
Unfortunately the height of the boot also increased the weight itself
in
2014 Keahi Finally came [up] with the ultimate both body design. This is the current prototype
I'm using today the x 14 bionic boot model using the same molds, just a little more polished without
Sacrificing any of that do-it-yourself charm, you invent a fashion. We're here
We have a mountain bike tire flew to a piece of foam and then attached to a piece of aluminium here
Unsurprisingly Keahi, and his boots create a commotion whenever and wherever he goes, I think it's due to the futuristic
Animalistic aspect of it be it part Sci-Fi part robot legs. [I] think people are very intrigued by the boots
Not all want to we would like to try them
But that percentage that do you want to try them want to buy them immediately even after decades of work?
He wants to go further I see the bionic boots of just being a start of an ExoSkeleton
Which will increase your power output in terms of adding actuators and increasing increasing strength
Or speed so basically a human can just travel faster yah, he also dreams of taking his bionic boot to market
He doesn't have a deal, but he's got many interested parties not to mention the worldwide patent in the meantime, [Ti]
He keeps running chasing his boyhood dream while he waits for the world to catch up
[what] most rewarding aspect about the bionic boot is not only making it myself [run] faster?
But also inspiring young children want to go to science fairs for example to make affair
I tell them you know I did the first sketch myself when I was 12 years old and hopefully I'll inspire them to do future
Scientific Endeavors themselves
That's pretty cool audiojungle
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