By RIA Novosti
Madrid : Two thousand years after a certain carpenter from Galilea pulled it off, a Spanish company has developed a somewhat less miraculous, if still impressive, way to walk on water.
As described in the web news journal Diariodeibiza, the company Vehiculos con Ingenio or Transportation with Imagination began selling its new contraption a month ago that allows people using it literally to walk on water.
The contraption is an air-filled large plastic sphere with a special hatch to help users climb onto it. The device allows users to “run on the waves, if they can balance themselves,” the company’s web site claims.
Diariodeibiza said the company specialises in innovative forms of transportation that are “practical, inexpensive and ecologically sound.”
Dozens of the spheres have already been sold to lovers of extreme sports and orders are coming in fast, the journal said.
Although in business a little more than a year, the company has already marketed 34 different types of alternative transportation, including a folding bicycle, a self-propelled watercraft, radio-controlled airplanes and cars, an electric moped, and even “flying” boots, the website said.