Mechanical Dolphin Tails
July 27th, 2010 | microlog, researchmaterial
Who wants to be a merperson? With detachable dolphin-tail prosthetics that can make you travel twice as fast as an Olympic swimmer?
Ten students from the University of Cincinnati’s nationally number-one ranked interior design program recently returned from the Florida Keys where they tested – and provided feedback to the inventor and manufacturer of – unusual foot appendages that aid human sea divers to swim like dolphins.
Then, about 24 UC design students further tested these mechanical “Flipper” fins (called Lunocets) in UC’s Olympic-sized lap pool.
Good thing it makes you faster since it makes you look more like lunch.
I. Want. One.
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Sharks will love this.
Yes please make me look more like shark food. Or a dolphin date-rape victim.