Is this the glimpse of the future for outdoors enthusiasts?
Iconic outdoor gear brand Arc’teryx and start-up Skip are developing motorised hiking pants.
Yep you heard that right.
This $US5,000 pair of pants is designed to propel you up the side of a mountain like an e-bike.
The device is called the Mo/Go — short for mountain goat (one of the best climbers in the world).
Though exoskeletons have been around for decades, the Mo/Go will be one of the first examples that goes beyond the commercial and rehabilitation sectors, reports gearpatrol.com
These technical pants come equipped with battery-powered motors located at the knee.
Adjustable carbon-fiber cuffs keep them in place, and they augment the user’s quadricep and hamstring muscles to propel them forward and upward.
According to Skip, the “motors are most helpful when tackling elevation — the time your knees would normally be working their hardest … the steeper and longer the climb or descent, the more they do for you.”
We can see they may help less able-bodied people get into the outdoors but for the rest of us? Yeah, nah.
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