In order to serve as a "last mile" mode of transportation without limitations, the Blink Board had to be easy to handle, lightweight and durable without being prohibitively expensive.
Treadway said the packaging was the biggest challenge in designing the Blink Board. All in all, the Blink Board weighs just nine pounds. Under the Blink Board's 27-inch Canadian maple deck is a slim lithium ion battery pack, highlighted with a slick LED light strip, that powers an electric motor on one of its fluorescent rear wheels. In fact, it would be hard to tell a Blink Board from the retro Penny skateboards popular in the '80s at first glance and that's probably the biggest compliment Acton hopes to hear. Treadway and the Acton Blink Board visited iDigitalTimes and invited us to have a closer look.Īcton boasts the Blink Board is the world's lightest electric skateboard and I wouldn't bet against it: the packaging is extremely smart and compact.
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Treadway describes the Blink Board as highly portable transportation designed for "the last mile." Whether you're leaving a train station or wherever you park your car, the Blink Board will scoot you along for that final stretch to your destination. To be fair, the Blink Board isn't a hoverboard either, but Acton co-founder and CTO Peter Treadway never claimed it was and, unlike the Swagway, the electric-powered skateboard at least got the second half of the moniker right. We're better than that and Acton's new Blink Board is here to prove it. But let's be real: McFly's iconic "hoverboard" is wasted on this silly looking gimmick. The absence of the real hoverboard in 2015 brought forth an appetite for self-balancing scooters – better known as Swagways, PunkeeDucks and Soulja Boards – that adopted the hoverboard term and ran with it. However, despite the movie’s impact on pop culture, reality ultimately paints a different picture. The "future" was supposed to promise flying cars running on garbage, self-lacing Nikes and, of course, the slick hoverboard.
The 1989 classic flick Back To The Future II set some lofty expectations for Oct.
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