I met w/the inventor and his son last night at my inline rink, and we got to test them out for 10-15 minutes before our game. You can tell a difference with these pucks immediately, a bit in feel (in a good way) and certainly in its action. Shots, passes, sauce, seemed to lack the bounce that most inline pucks suffer from.
I sent a couple dozen bank passes off the boards/dasher and tried to get it to roll or flop, and it pretty much never did at all. In between I'd compare to our usual pucks, and almost every time it would do so. That alone is a big plus. Pass receipts, kicking it off your skates, etc. were similar in lacking that bounce/flop.
They were slightly larger than the normal pucks we use, but it wasn't noticeable or an issue. I believe they said the final product is planned to be 3% smaller than that, which should make it closer to a normal puck, but still that's negligible if anything.
I recommend people stay away from this. They want a deposit and claim it cost $100 to produce the pucks. When the puck is returned you'll get your deposit back. They claim the deposit is because people don't send the pucks back. What's the point in sending them back anyway - is there testing done to used pucks to see if anything broke off/ quality inspection, etc?
That's not out of ordinary to protect prototypes and their materials. I'm not saying everyone in the world should deal with it and send them $100 to borrow a puck, but imagine how many people would say F it and not send the puck back? The inventor did tell me how they go back to the drawing board, so to speak, to further improve the pucks. The ones I used had been a bit modified to save some weight, for instance.
