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This is kind of neat, but it negates one of the great benefits of skating (or walking, or running, or bicycling) which is exercise.
I agree. They are quite cool but they are solving a problem I never had. If I had a bunch of money laying around and was bored I would buy these but not otherwise.
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I rode one at SXSW in March 2013 -- they're yet to be made available commercially?
I think they've already shipped a fair number of the Kickstarter backer reward boards.
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Vaporware? Have you watched the video?
I have. It's a kids toy with a slow mo video. But I am sure the founders of this seeded this thread with enough fake accounts to make sure it gets its much deserved publicity.
Boosted Boards focus on building an amazing electric longboard is much more appealing to me.
Speaking of the actual skates . The most real are probably http://boostedboards.com . There are almost here it seems.
Not 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'd guess that engadget is the news aggregator that the OP found the content on. HN should allow this sort of link, as a first submission, but add in source links if not given by the OP. [But HN don't seem interested in changing the interface at all].
Still waiting for the Kickstarter that brings us the 'spokewheels' from Snowcrash (not sure if that's the actual name, it's been a few years since I've read it). Something that can deal with potholes and road debris alike would be a godsend.
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I have. It's a kids toy with a slow mo video. But I am sure the founders of this seeded this thread with enough fake accounts to make sure it gets its much deserved publicity.
You realize that all new accounts on HN show up with green usernames. Currently, there are only two 'new' users who have posted in this thread, both expressing negative views about the product. If they've 'seeded' this thread with fake accounts, there's no evidence of it.
