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Aquaglide: Inflatable Water-Borne Recreational Structures

By Rain Noe - August 15, 2011

in Object Culture

While we often see inflatable structures intended for disaster relief, there's at least one company designing them for pure fun: Washington-state-based Aquaglide, which designs something like waterborne jungle gyms for recreation.

Aquaglide's floating slides, jungle gyms, climbing platforms, lounges, and even trampolines can be connected in modular fashion via inflatable surfaces, creating "Aquaparks" of manifold configurations. And some of the structures can even be independently towed at speed, providing a larger-scale version of tubing.

Though disaster-relief structures and Aquaglide products are probably made the same way—fabric-reinforced PVC plastic, hot gas welded together—the former is intended as a last resort, the latter is for vacation resorts.

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Bob

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I would love one of these on a lake with a vacation home! Great fun for all the family and grandkids to play on!
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Daniel

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These guys ripped of RAVE Sports who originally brought these ideas to the market www.ravesports.com/water-trampolines.html , they even copied the brand color blocking. You have to check out the rope swing attachment these guys have!
Evan you're right... this industry is really fun to work in! Best internship I ever had!
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evan

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These are soo awesome!! I would LOVE to work for this company designing cool inflatables!!!!!!
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