Photograph of the Versa Foot courtesy of Biodapt.
Mike “Monster” Schultz, an adaptive snocross and motocross racer, was honored with a 2013 Popular Science Invention Award for his Versa Foot sports prosthesis, which uses a custom-tuned FOX mountain bike shock to provide fine-tuning adjustability.
According to a PRWeb press release, Popular Science editors picked the “ten entries that best represent the spirit of homegrown ingenuity and solve real-world problems in a practical, innovative way” for the Invention Awards. To qualify for award consideration, inventions needed to be “something new, not just a minor, incremental improvement on an existing object or product” and must be “poised to create a market or disrupt an existing one.”
Schultz underwent a transfemoral amputation of his left leg in 2008 while competing in a professional snocross race-he was an X-Games competitor with five national podium finishes.
