I wrote this while on a hoverboard
Under my feet is 24 pounds of fun. Two wheels, a platform and a pair of motors that responds as much to my thoughts as they do physical gesture. Or at least it seems that way.
SEE ALSO: The rise and fall of the hoverboard
My hoverboard, the safer, legal and not recalled Swagtron, may be the last of a dying breed, a reminder of that brief period when millions of us were finally traveling in 21st century style. Of the moment before people with no business hopping on a hoverboard mounted the plastic and metal steeds in a doomed effort to look young and fleet of foot.
I have in my possession artifacts of this bygone era, a handful of Swagways (and one, terrifying no-name model) that now must all go silently back to their maker. None of them are broken. None exploded. None ever threw me off. I rode them carefully then gleefully, then constantly. Read more...
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