Weekend Fun: Booster Blades

Posted on Aug 16, 2008

From the “How To Kill Yourself In 30 Seconds” file, comes Booster Blades, a self-propelled, inline skate. Booster Blades incorporate an innovative drive mechanism that scored a silver medal at the Geneva Inventors Exhibition for innovation and design. To skate you push down in a natural stepping or pedalling motion in order to gain speed. If you move your heel back, this engages a brake pad, to enable you to slow or stop...