A backpack that reduces the forces on your body when carrying heavy loads could help prevent injury, allow soldiers to carry more equipment and even speed up the response time of emergency services, ...

Wearing a big, heavy backpack can get pretty tiring. That's why scientists have developed a pack that's not only claimed to lighten the load on the wearer, but that also uses the motion of that load ...

December 30, 2006 Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania have announced details for a suspended-load ergonomic backpack that reduces the force of a backpacks load on the wearer by 86%, allowing ...

NATICK, Mass. (Sept. 25, 2012) -- Lightening Soldiers' loads has always weighed heavily on Rich Landry's mind. While more and more equipment is being developed to assist them on the battlefield, ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) --It's a danger for your kids at school and you may not even know. When's the last time you picked up their backpack? 10-year-old Lane Warren walks or rides his bike to school ...

A lighter “floating” backpack has become a reality, thanks to Penn professor Lawrence Rome. To reduce stress on backs, necks, knees, and ankles, Rome created HoverGlide, the world’s first “floating” ...

As we enter the fall hiking season, we may find ourselves carrying the bare necessities in a heavy backpack: a sleeping bag, a can of bug spray, a small stove, or even a case of White Claw. Until now, ...