These look neat and they made a great kickstarter video. They know who's going to want those (25 - 30 something guys) and they made sure to have lots of shots of cute girls using the skates. I watched the whole thing ;) It was also fun to see my home town of Pasadena all over that video. Now I'm homesick. Good luck to you guys - they do look genuinely fun!
RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12 MPH
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#22This reminds me of the hover boots from the Zelda: Ocarina of Time game for Nintendo 64. Fun memories! I see a lot of comments concerning the product's ugliness. But, hey, not every product has to be subtle and elegant. Some consumers may embrace the over-the-top, video game-like appearance.
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#24Not trying to be rude, but why is engadget linked here instead of the actual KickStarter? I can't be the only one who hates struggling to find a source link on most news sites? Wouldn't it be more useful to just link to the KickStarter? Edit: Ok so engadgets source links are easy to find but still why not just link to the KickStarter?
I had the same thought. It's basically blog spam. Engadget adds a sentence or two.
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#25More kickstarter Vaporware.
We'll never get cool things if we automatically dismiss anything cool as vaporware and refuse to engage with it. Granted, sometimes projects like this won't eventuate, but I'd rather be optimistic and get disappointed occasionally rather than cynical and always feel negative about cool new stuff.
Yeah, eventually something like this will solve a particular pain point for a subset of people. If this is supposed to just be a recreational thing, then I don't see the advantages it offers over stakes, bikes, scooters, etc.. But as the tech progresses then one day we might find something like this pop up again that is a valuable solution to some legitimate problems.
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#26Speaking of the actual skates . The most real are probably http://boostedboards.com . There are almost here it seems.
I've seen a few Boosted boards in the wild, they're definitely real.
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#27I hope they come with a helmet.
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#28Can't wait for sidewalk/bikelane wars over this. Too fast for the sidewalk with people walking. Will cyclists give up there precious bike lane space?
I don't think they have to, since this is not a bicycle.
These are probably too fast (and powered) to be considered pedestrians. They'll like suffer the same limbo the Segway did, and end up with nowhere to go.
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#29These look like foot-sized Segways.
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#30These look neat and they made a great kickstarter video. They know who's going to want those (25 - 30 something guys) and they made sure to have lots of shots of cute girls using the skates. I watched the whole thing ;) It was also fun to see my home town of Pasadena all over that video. Now I'm homesick. Good luck to you guys - they do look genuinely fun!
I was actually put off by the great pains they took to make them look cool in their video. It reminds me of the early promos for the Segway.