Bungee cord backpack lightens the load (CNN News)

[Yrys]

Could be useful, when its comercialized, one day...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/21/bungee.backpack.reut/index.html

The damped vertical movement of the load reduces the forces exerted
on the body by up to 86 percent, Rome and his UPenn colleagues found. It also
reduces the energy needed to walk or run with the backpack.

They calculate that a 27-kilogram (59.4 pounds) backpack can be carried
using the same energy required to carry a conventional backpack weighing
just 21.7 kilograms (47.7 pounds).

 

[Dissident]

In other words, the new rucksack we are supposed to get in the near(ish?) future is going to be outdated when it comes out?

But seriously, I wonder if this new idea can be incorporated to the 64 or 82 pattern?

 

[Synthos]

Pictures!
http://www.newscientisttech.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn10835/dn10835-2_400.jpg
http://www.newscientisttech.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn7970/dn7970-1_600.jpg
And video link:
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn7970V1.mpg

As for integration: highly doubt it... But hey some people are really ingenious maybe there's a simple way to do it.
It also seems the me that your shock cords with the system would need to be different tensile strengths to match the weight that you're carrying... Too weak and your gear will hit "bottom" too easily and too strong and the pack will be riding at the top.

I can't seem to get the picture out of my mind the pack flinging itself around hehe

 

[Lerch]

I could see someone taking a welder to a '64 frame and rigging up some sort of platform. It looks like a pretty good idea but like said before, you'd need multiple cords to offset the carried weight.
As for myself, I can't help but think of the first soldiers to get these just jumping up and down with them and giggling.

 

[Shamrock]

In other words, the new rucksack we are supposed to get in the near(ish?) future is going to be outdated when it comes out?

We'll swap out the hardware and upgrade to Heavystuff 2.0

 

[Bomber]

http://lightningpacks.com/

Companies website, seems like a good idea ot transform wasted energy into useable electricity.  Less batteries if you could just plug all your gear into your load carriage system.

 

[NL_engineer]

It also seems the me that your shock cords with the system would need to be different tensile strengths to match the weight that you're carrying... Too weak and your gear will hit "bottom" too easily and too strong and the pack will be riding at the top.

I see the biggest problem with this system is that with no set load weight, and each troop carring different weights, we are probably better of with the internal frame (when we get it  : ). Maybe in the next few this will be redefined, and it might work for us then, but I can't see it working now.

 

[Dissident]

Depending on how lightweight it can be made, it is realatively easy to make a suspension system with adjustable shock, rebound and preload, capable of adjusting to the weight of the pack.