This Electric Skateboard Can Dominate Any Terrain

Andrew Fern had no idea what he was in for when he decided to build a new kind of all-terrain vehicle. The idea was simple: Create a new type of skateboard that works on land, make it fast, and give it treads to conquer any terrain. The execution — first shown in this YouTube video — was, in a word, awesome.

The vehicle even had a name befitting its extreme nature: the Scarpar. When the video was first posted back in 2006, it quickly went viral among the rapidly growing field of tech blogs. Many sites wrote about it, and the vast majority that did expressed amazement at the idea (full disclosure: One of those sites was mine).