Filed under: Green Tech
We’re not sure what’s more groan-inducing, the terribly unimaginative name, or the idea of riding around on a pair of 16-pound motorized roller skates.
These ridiculous, battery-powered, “transportation devices” will make sure you never have a girlfriend or boyfriend (though if you think these clunkers are cool, you probably didn’t have much hope anyway). Availability and price are unknown since the product — to be called iShoes — is still in testing, but a promo site promises a 5-7 mile range and a top speed of 15 miles-per-hour.
The whole contraption is controlled by a wired hand-held power and breaking system, which presumably runs up inside your pants or some such — otherwise, seems kind of dangerously tangle-prone. The iShoes fit over your own kicks, as long as they happen to be between sizes 8 and 12 for men or 7 and 10 for women.
Alas, the oh-so-tired name has absolutely nothing to do with either iPods, iMacs, or the Internet. Perhaps you could make the claim these shoes are interactive, to use the mid-’90s catch-all description for anything remotely technological, but our money’s on insane.
Then again, the Brodway musical version of ‘Xanadu’ is a hit, so maybe the iShoes peeps are on to something….
From Boing Boing Gadgets
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