GroundSurf is a three - wheeled skateboard with an strange twist : you’re able to operate it with a Bluetooth cellphone . It ’s driven by an galvanizing motor between the two front wheel , and you may either remotely control its speed with your Bluetooth cellphone or lean forward to accelerate , backward to slow down down or pasture brake . But its designers , Paris - based company Ratleads , say it ’s not a skateboard at all , but a surfboard .
One of the inventors of GroundSurf , Stephane Pelletier , says GroundSurf give you “ that surf feeling , ” but on the ground . He explain , “ It ’s been tested and develop with professional surfer . The back is a very specific truck that moves in unlike dimensional ways . compare to a skateboard , it ’s not moving the same manner at all . You really have to test it to believe it . ”
The GroundSurf will first revolve out in 2008 , distribute by California surf brand Gordon & Smith for retail price of between $ 1,770 in $ 2,040 . [ GroundSurf , viaBlueTomorrow ]
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