TECHNO SAPIENS

The Convergence of Humans and Technology

THE SPRINGWALKER


APPLIED MOTION

The Springwalker"Nature spent millions of years engineering us as running creatures. It will take some doing to better that--but we'll soon be running at 30 miles per hour," says NASA physicist John Dick, who co-invented this walking device at his Claremont, California, startup company in his spare time. "This is just a clumsy prototype, but it will give rise to a whole family of enhanced-gait machines the likes of which we've never seen."