What is aerobia®?
Aerobia® is a ring -shaped toy for drilling from one person to another. In this respect, it is similar to Frisbee®, although it is designed as a disk, not like a ring. The toy consists of a polycarbonate core with soft rubber bumpers lining its inner and outer rims, as well as a spoiler on its outer edge for aerodynamic stability.
Alan Adler, machine lecturer at Stanford University, Aerobia®. Adler was thinking about improving the performance of flying discs such as Frisbee®, from the age of 70. Finally, he left the shape of the disk for the design of the ring to reduce resistance, resulting in the predecessor of Aerobia®, Skyro. For several years of development, Aerobia® finally created in 1984. With the added spoiler, the toy was able to travel faster speeds with relative stability.
Adler's work can be bent to reach a straight line. The ring can also fly in curve by throwing it at a slope. As for the elevator, throwing aerobia® in the wind causes to reach a higher flight while it is reduced by the wind.
Over the years, people have used aerobia® as exercise equipment, making it the peak of several recreational games. One of them, aerosticks, involves catching a shin ring with sticks. Another, aerogoal, is based on the characteristics and principles of football.
Aerobia® ability to fly faster and further than flying discs allowed it to determine unprecedented achievements. His prototype, Skyro, could go up to 856 feet (about 261 m). On July 14, 2003, however, Aerobia® broke the Guinness World record for "the longest throwing of the object without any help" when Erin Hemmings plunged a refined version of the ring called Aerobia® for 1,333 Fe Feet (about 406 m).
Despite its advantages, Aerobia® also has its shortcomings. For starters, it cannot float and loses speed if it is worthy of a high angle. Also, because it travels at longer distances than flying discs, it is much easier to lose.
Aerobia® is also the name of the company that Adler founded with the invention of the toy itself. Alder, originally known as Superflight, Inc., later turned him into aerobia, Inc. Since then, the company has created more Adler's inventions. Perhaps the most popular for the flying ring is Aeropress®, a brewing device that Adler invented in 2005.