Or a prop for a new "Jackass" movie. But it isn't. It's a pogo stick — with an engine. A motorized pogo stick. The "Hop Rod" looks strange and Wile E. Coyote-ish by today's safety-obsessed ...

some hackers at cmu decided to make the better pogo stick. instead of a coil spring, it stores energy in a fiber composite bow. the bow spring stores 2-5 times as much energy per unit mass ...

Aboard Brian Spencer’s turbocharged pogo stick, humans can bounce over ... The $300 Flybar jump stick, powered by giant rubber bands. After lining up some investors, the Spencers decided to ...

That’s how Vurtego pogo sticks, named after the Mission Viejo, California, company that has produced them since 2005, were born. Unlike spring-loaded sticks, Vurtego’s devices are powered by ...

It seems that the first US patent for an internal-combustion powered ‘Pogo’ stick was issued to inventor R.J. Mays back in 1950. The jumping machine was intended to run on gasoline ...

The year his world was upended by his father’s death, Patino asked for a pneumatic pogo stick for Christmas. Powered by compressed air, pneumatic pogo sticks can bounce up to 10 feet.

(Need proof? He holds the world record for highest straight jump, most backflips on a stick, and the fewest jumps in a minute.) “I’d never even heard of Extreme Pogo before,” says Franke ...