I love seeing this kind of nuts-and-bolts industrial design. Seattle-based designer Eric Brunt observed that what makes snowshoes work is their increased surface area, which enables the wearer to “float" atop the surface. But that increased surface area also means that the wearer has to walk like s/he’s in a Monty Python sketch.
What if, Brunt reasoned, the footprint could shrink when lifted, enabling a more natural gait, then grow again when placed back onto the surface?
Brunt mocked up a bunch of “kinematic folding mechanisms" in cardboard to see what was possible:
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