SubscribeExercise Gadgets: Can You Guess What This Is?
A clue: it can travel up to 17 mph (27 km/h).
Check back later and I will enlighten you... unless someone guesses correctly first.
It's a water scooter - this one available from Chinese supplier Evertop Hardware.
Other names include Aqua Skipper, Water Bird, or Pumpabike.
More like this in Weird · Jul 2, 2008
It's either an automatic pooper scooper or some kind of run in place cardio machine?
ReplyIt is a human-propelled water vehicle. If I remember correctly it skims across the top of the water with a rider making the horizontal pieces at the bottom move up and down using a pogo stick type motion. The motion makes the airfoil shaped "wings" propel this contraption forward. I think I remember seeing this on a Discovery-channel-style show some time back. (How close am I?)
ReplyYou got it! It's a "water scooter" aka Aqua Skipper, Water Bird, Pumpabike. Looks like fun.
ReplyI'm completely in the dark about this one
ReplyWhoa...Do you think this will catch on? and more to the point do you think it is safe?
ReplyMinimalist exercise bike?
ReplyI'm going to guess an automated "Skip-It"
ReplyLooks like your typical everyday torture device to me...
ReplyNigel's got it. It's a personal-powered watercraft.
ReplyIt appears to be a human slingshot. Where is the landing gear?
ReplyI agree with Nigel and Jarrett
ReplyNigel, I saw this on TV too! It's really cool. If I lived by some water, I'd totally get one. I wonder how much they cost? Actually, I'd be sort of scared to try it because I'd be afraid of sinking into the water, lol.
Replya pogo machine.
ReplyHere it is on YouTube
Replyhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=bd74PrI0kYs
Spectra, from what I remember, many of the riders fell in the water until they figured out the balance of it and how to reach their rhythm. It reminded me of how hard it must be to begin riding a unicycle. (Honestly, it looked frustrating!)
ReplyI don't understand the physics of how these things work. Here's a similar "hydrofoil" board.
Replyhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=-y7jWp5uBVE&feature=related
I certainly wouldnt have picked that!
Replyhmm... i really cant figure out how to use this things :( before watching the video
thanks for the video DD!
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