When the first Segway was launched in 2001, it got everyone in the tech industry hyped up. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and legendary venture capitalist John Doerr were early and enthusiastic investors, and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs even predicted that cities would be redesigned around the device. This high-tech scooter, with two wheels and [...]
When you think of e-skateboarding you probably do not think off road. Well, think again. There is an entire class of electric skateboards that are more than just street carvers and pavement gliders. Off road electric skateboards are a perfect example how something that is designed for urban setting can be transformed into a [...]
When I was a kid, I used to go everywhere on a board. To be honest, I wasn’t really that good. I could balance and cruise around, and pop up some ollies every now and then, but most of the time I used my skateboard as a way to get places. I’m not exactly [...]
When they first came out, hoverboards were a real revolution in personal transportation. Now, it seems that the world has gotten used to “hovering” barely 10 inches off the ground, on two wheels, no steering handle, relying heavily on your sense of balance. It is fun, but would you dare to take one of these [...]
Hoverboard is an electro-mechanical transportation device. This fancy name is short for “it can fail in either the mechanical aspect or the electrical aspect”. We should all be concerned about safety, and get to know the certifications that independent laboratories give to the best hoverboards. The bigger concern of the two is the electronics [...]
When Marty McFly traveled to the year 2015, he found flying cars, self-tying sneakers and hovering boards. We are still far from flying cars, but so called hoverboards (often mistakenly referred to as hooverboards), can be seen everywhere. Although they cannot actually hover, these scooters got the name, and thanks to the countless headlines [...]
If you’re someone that’s into regular skateboards, you’d know that Backfire is a well-known name around most parts of the US. They make good, quality skateboards, and their customer service is one of the best in the industry. But enough about them, let’s talk about this electric longboard; the Backfire G2T review. They’ve used [...]
It was not easy for a small company Ride1Up to find its place in a very competitive electric skateboard market, along sharks like Boosted Board or Evolve, and a flood of cheap boards from China. But somehow they have managed to strike a happy medium between high performance and low price [...]