April 28, 2007
Design: Ingenious Therapies
re: Just Hanging Around
A shoemaker has created bat-style boots to allow travellers to hang upside down on the London Underground.
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Sky News reports, Dutch-born Eelko Moorer's footwear can latch on to hand strap rails inside Tube trains.
Mr Moorer, from east London, got his girlfriend Alice Wolff to try the boots out.
"We had a somewhat mixed reaction from other Tube travellers," he said. "Some people were surprised, others liked it and others were appalled."
The 32-year-old came up with the design while pondering how to liven up "boring and similar journeys".
"I like the idea of doing something that gives a person a sense of relief and can cheer up lives," he said.
press release | IOL
photo & more: http://www.designmuseumshop.org/design/page71446
Eelko Moorer's web-site http://www.eelkomoorer.com/
~I've don't think I ever lived in a place where affecting different postures could be liberating. (See "Bird People" at Moorer's site) I imagine knowledge of such a freedom has to do with population density per square mile. Perhaps I've lived too long out-of-the-line-of-sight of neighboring windows and the eyes of others.
Posted by Stubbornson at April 28, 2007 07:07 AM