08-27-2018, 07:51 PM
Robert M wrote:
Dazed,
I saw a video about the backpack and thought it was a gag. Still question the idea of it. Wouldn't be a fan of a bouncing backpack on my back as I'm walking on a rough road. Don't like it with a regular backpack. With a model designed to move up and down? Seems like it'd only be worse. Seems, of course, is the operative word. It may actually prove beneficial, kinda like installing shocks onto the backpack.
Robert
I only saw the short 'video' on the company's website, but it 'seems' as though the pack doesn't bounce up, and down—the person, in this case, a runner, is doing the bouncing while the pack stays relatively still. I think this pack is trying to mitigate the effects of gravity on the rising, and falling of the pack as you move. In other words, while you're always supporting the weight of the pack, if it's stationary as you rise, you're not lifting the weight up with every step—you're only lifting against the resistance of the mechanism, and as you descend, there is no additional increase from gravity's effect on the weight of the falling load.