Electric skateboards are one of the most exciting new products in the last few years. Because they're new, there's no escaping some massive caveats. They're heavy and expensive, long range and great battery life aren't easy to find, and you really can't ride many of them if and when the battery dies. That last one is a big problem, and California company Inboard has a unique solution.
Electric skateboards are an exciting new technology that is currently being hampered by cost. Few companies offer boards below the $1,000 mark, which is five to ten times as expensive as a regular board.
Zoe Kleinman presents a special edition from the CES consumer technology trade fair in Las Vegas. Is virtual reality about to take over the tech world? Tech analyst Ben Wood gives his views, and Chris Daniel from Nvidia and Brandon Cox from 505 Games demonstrate the technology. Plus Lug Giroud from Hexo + flies the latest drones in the Nevada desert, and Peter Treadway from Acton talks about the rise of hoverboards, and his company's electric skateboard.
We were promised hoverboards! Well that was the vision of 2015 in Back to the Future 2 anyways. It’s not great that Doc Brown and Marty McFly lied to us.
But to be fair, in the past few months we have seen a huge growth in new forms of personal transportation. And this means that the “must have” gadget this year are electric skateboards and self-balancing scooters, and we reviewed our top picks for 2015.
