{"id":104329,"date":"2020-03-27T03:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/extremely-steampunk-leg-attachments-could-let-humans-run-46-miles-per-hour"},"modified":"2020-03-27T03:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:04:22","slug":"extremely-steampunk-leg-attachments-could-let-humans-run-46-miles-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/extremely-steampunk-leg-attachments-could-let-humans-run-46-miles-per-hour","title":{"rendered":"Extremely steampunk leg attachments could let humans run 46 miles per hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extremely-steampunk-leg-attachments-could-let-humans-run-46-miles-per-hour3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCycling is considered a new sport,\u201d he says. \u201cIce skating is considered a separate event at the Olympic games. As technology develops and performance becomes not comparable to running, we might see this device being considered as an augmentation device that would initiate a new sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As exciting as it is to look forward to a new realm of super-fast sports, there\u2019s always the chance such technology might be used non-recreationally. Braun is aware of the potential for misuse of his spring legs by law enforcement agencies (a group who may benefit from them, per the paper\u2019s abstract).<\/p>\n<p>Braun likens the hypothetical use of his devices to the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/17\/nyregion\/17police.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use of Segways<\/a> by police forces. They allow for more mobility. But making sure they\u2019re used ethically, is still an open question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCycling is considered a new sport,\u201d he says. \u201cIce skating is considered a separate event at the Olympic games. As technology develops and performance becomes not comparable to running, we might see this device being considered as an augmentation device that would initiate a new sport.\u201d As exciting as it is to look forward to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}