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Rockboard Descender Skateboard Moves with Tank Treads

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Are you ready to ride your skateboard like it is a tank? Check out Rockboard’s Descender board. This baby is outfitted with treads that are wrapped around heavy-duty rollers. That means that it will go over terrain that normal skateboards could never handle.…

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April 6th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Snap Folding Skateboard Folds in a Snap

I’m no skateboarder and never have been, but if I was, I would definitely get the Snap Folding Skateboard. I’d probably break my neck, but still. It makes it super easy to carry your board with you anywhere. The design lets you fold over both ends making it smaller and…

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March 16th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

ZBoard Motorized Skateboard: Lean to Drive

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We’ve seen motorized skateboards in the past, but this may be the best one yet. Ben Forman and Geoff Larson started the ZBoard project as a Senior year mechanical engineering project while at the University of Southern California, eventually leading to three years of development. Now it is finally ready…

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February 28th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Board of Awesomeness Kinect Longboard Uses Everything but Your Feet to Make It Move

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The Kinect was designed to make it easier for us to command software, but the guys at Chaotic Moon Labs knew they could make it move actual objects. The result? The Board of Awesomeness, a motorized longboard that relies on video recognition, speech recognition, gesture recognition, location data, accelerometer data…

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January 10th, 2012 by: Lambert Varias

LANDBEARSHARK Motorized Skateboard with Treads: Another Way to Die?

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Ever since I first saw motorized skateboards, I always thought that there were a really great way to get around. Now that I’m older and saner, I know for a fact that these contraptions can’t be too safe, especially when you don’t have many ways of slowing down. This particular…

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September 26th, 2011 by: Range

Scarpar is Part Tank and Part Skateboard

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Last year we talked a bit about the Scarpar off-road skateboard thingy. It looks like a skateboard, but it is made to run off-road and has no normal wheels to roll on. Some off-road boards just have large wheels on each corner. Wheel’s are for pussies though.…

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May 14th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

MapleXO & Grove iPhone Case: Created From Crashed Skateboards

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These limited edition iPhone 4 cases were created by a collaboration between Grove and MapleXO. They include wood that came from old skateboard decks.…

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March 10th, 2011 by: Range

Clear29 LED Skateboards Light Up the Night

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Now I’ll start out by saying that if I even tried to skateboard during the daytime, I’d probably end up with a bloody lip and a concussion within 10 minutes, so the idea of skateboarding in the dark is completely off-limits for me. That said, these LED illuminated skateboards still…

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March 1st, 2011 by: Technabob

Tony Hawk Tries to Ride Skateboard With 630hp V8

If you have never driven in a vehicle that had a lot of power under foot you might not know hard it is to keep a car in a straight line if you take off fast. I am not talking the 200hp V6 your mom’s car has. I am talking…

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December 6th, 2010 by: Shane McGlaun

Back to the Future Hoverboard is Finally Real, and No, You Can’T Ride It

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Apparently the hoverboard that I’ve always wanted has finally become reality. It was made by Nils Guadagnin for a Back to the Future exhibition.

As is obvious from the pics, this is a copy of the one Marty McFly rode in Back to the Future Part II…. While it

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May 28th, 2010 by: Range

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