Kids Love New Playground Ride
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This one-of-a-kind piece of playground equipment was recently installed at a park in the New Zealand city of Pakuranga. Called a Roktopus, it's the creation of Wellington, New Zealand inventor Theo Jacques. Jacques, a physics teacher and part-time inventor, created the contraption after he got tired of taking his children to playgrounds full of the same old swing-and-slide equipment. It consists of four arms suspended from a single pivot point that hangs from the top of a post. Kids sit on rubber tires that bounce off a slanted housing at the base of the pole. They push off with their feet to move straight out or around the pole.
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Kids Love New Playground Ride FARM HOME recreation 22-1-44 This one-of-a-kind piece of playground equipment was recently installed at a park in the New Zealand city of Pakuranga. Called a Roktopus, it's the creation of Wellington, New Zealand inventor Theo Jacques. Jacques, a physics teacher and part-time inventor, created the contraption after he got tired of taking his children to playgrounds full of the same old swing-and-slide equipment. It consists of four arms suspended from a single pivot point that hangs from the top of a post. Kids sit on rubber tires that bounce off a slanted housing at the base of the pole. They push off with their feet to move straight out or around the pole.
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