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Author Topic: Spring boots. NOT bocks but I mistook them for bocks  (Read 905 times)
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« on: February 29, 2008, 11:45:08 AM »
So I was watching a show on ABC2 called Scrapheap Challenge and it's a pretty cool show about these team who are given a challenge, a mechanical marvel, to build and only the stuff in the scrapheap where they do the challenge. And in the final they were building walkers and after some footage of some robots they had this guy who had these boots, "incredible springy boots to bounce along like a kangaroo" sound familiar?

Well after some few initial pictures/footage in which I mistook them for bocks, I saw they were quite different. They use what appears to be a chain attached to a foot which passes up through a gear and then goes vertically upwards to attach to some springs.

I didn't find out till well after the footage that this series is from 1999. So, anyone heard of them?

I will link you all the video when I upload it... My laptop won't upload to youtube and the actual computer is busy killing viruses.
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« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2008, 12:29:56 PM »
Here's the promised video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUyFiBMqdoY

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How do I embed it?
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« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2008, 12:43:38 PM »
yea we've discussed him a couple of times.. i believe he needs to get himself a pair of Bocks and see how they compare Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2008, 12:46:44 PM »
I figured you must have discussed this guy Tongue Did he do anything with the concept or gave up because bocks are better? Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2008, 12:50:04 PM »
oh my god, now thats what i call an imitation brand, haha

did he build them in the scrapheap or are they an actuall product?
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« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2008, 12:59:36 PM »
They were his invention. This was way back in 1999 remember. Around when (if what I read from sprog was right)  Mr. Boeck invented bocks... But I was just wondering if anyone had heard of them. I found a few references about this site but no clear, here's pics/video.
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« Reply #6 on: February 29, 2008, 02:50:03 PM »
Well, here is the strangest bock-like device by far.  You don't want to trip while wearing this one.

http://www.springwalker.com/Springwalker.avi

You can find information about it at

http://www.springwalker.com
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« Reply #7 on: February 29, 2008, 03:59:31 PM »
How about these !?

http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/bleex.htm


http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2006/10/exoskeleton-update.html

http://whatsthecrack.net/US-Army-Exoskeleton-Super-Soldier--Objective-Force-Warrior

I'm still tracking down a pair that I've seen back in the 70's !
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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2008, 04:13:16 AM »
The guys name is Keahi Seymour. And he called them Bionic boots XD All I found was rather old info (like, before 2000) So perhaps he gave up in the face of bocks Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2008, 11:21:28 AM »
There are also those "russian rocket boots" or whatever they were called.  Those were come guy using hydraulic cylinders or something which were compressed when you landed.
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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2008, 09:12:58 PM »
Quote from: Dark Knight on February 29, 2008, 03:59:31 PM
How about these !?

I'm still tracking down a pair that I've seen back in the 70's !
Not really DK, they are designed so troops can carry heavier loads for longer distances, more than for running along
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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2008, 10:43:25 PM »
I saw that episode!  In the USA it was retitled Junkyard Wars, but when I saw that guy I always wanted to make a pair for myself.  That's why bocks interested me so much when I found them on Youtube.
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« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2008, 11:16:06 PM »
Quote from: Sprog on March 02, 2008, 09:12:58 PM
Quote from: Dark Knight on February 29, 2008, 03:59:31 PM
How about these !?

I'm still tracking down a pair that I've seen back in the 70's !
Not really DK, they are designed so troops can carry heavier loads for longer distances, more than for running along
The PAIR I'm trying to track down are more like POWER BOCKS 
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