Stephen Sprong, 23, an inventor from the UK who is competing in a Smiles Per Hour design competition run by Fiat, has developed a new skateboard that is powered by “the rider jumping up and down on the board,” according to a story in Echo News.
The competition to discover Britain’s budding inventors ran this summer and was based on the design brief of making travelling more fun. . . “It’s an entirely new and exciting transport of leisure board and on flat ground it allows the rider to propel themselves forward by pumping,” he said.
Sadly there is no video of the sprongboard in action..
[Link: Smiles Per Hour via Echo]
