Have you ever wondered what it would be like to roll down a hill at speeds of up to 30 mph inside a huge ball? Perhaps not, but that was what Andrew Akers wondered while he was looking through some drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, or so he says. Wherever the idea came from, Andrew ang ex-reseach scientist Dwane vander Sluis began designing such a ball, which they called a Zorb.
The job was far from easy. "We took the prototype to our bank manager, hoping to get a loan, but he wasn't very enthusiastic." says Andrew. "His actual words were: 'That 's a nice beach ball,' which didn't really give us much confidence." Luckily, they were not discouraged and each one decided to design a sphere reparately. Dwane's sphere was too small and mine was too large. Each one was useless on its own, but we put one inside the other and the Zorb was born,