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altered electric skateboards for real speed demons

filed under: just plain fun

Back when I was a kid, I tried to get on a skateboard a couple of times. But just about every time I did, I couldn’t manage to build up enough momentum to ride for more than a few seconds without wiping out. Up until now, there was no other choice for me but to pick up a video game controller and live vicariously through Tony Hawk…

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October 21st, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

orbitwheels turn rollerblades on their side

filed under: gadgets | just plain fun

orbitwheels image via core77.com

In the beginning, there was the roller skate, then came the skate board and later the Rollerblade. So what’s the next conveyance that we’ll be strapping to our feet to roll around the street?

Orbitwheels move sort of like inline skates, but a wheel rotates around your feet, instead of under them…

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July 27th, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

sony to compete with segway?

filed under: future tech

Sony Human Transporter

A recently filed patent application from Sony shows that they are working on a technology that is similar to that in the ubiquitous (and superfluous) Segway Human Transporter…

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January 3rd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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