
Tom Allen
Co-founder and CEO of Boost Treadmills, and previously a co-founder of AlterG, commercializing NASA-developed antigravity treadmill technology.
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Sep 16, 2026
From NASA Lab to Everyday Life: A Tech Briefs 50th Anniversary Special
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Chitra SethiHOST
Tom, can you describe the commercialization journey from NASA research to AltaG and then eventually to Boost?

Tom AllenGUEST
You know, I think when in the early days of Alter-G, I think it was really shaped by, as Sean was saying, by Alberto coming down and seeing the kind of performance aspects of it.

Tom AllenGUEST
And, you know, we were producing... things in such low quantities that ultimately they were quite expensive and everything was kind of custom made.

Tom AllenGUEST
And so we, we got involved in professional sports and whether it was distance runners or basketball teams or things like that, or even collegiate sports where where small improvements in performance go a really long way.

Tom AllenGUEST
And, you know, it was kind of easy to make a commercial case to a basketball team that, pays players half a million dollars a game or something like that because you can say, okay, if you get back a game quicker because of this, it's kind of an easy an easy application or an easy business case to make.
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