While I’m aware that science exists, I don’t understand much beyond the fact that banging two rocks together and saying the appropriate prayer will cause fire to miraculously occur.
According to the release, Herr’s work is revolutionary in marrying “human physiology with electromechanics,” a concept I thought already existed and was referred to as a Taser.
He lost the originals in a climbing accident when he was younger, but now uses his new ones to scale mountains even better than before. In short, he had actually improved on the original design.