With the relieve the modern 2 wheel self balancing electric scooter, 2015 has been a fantastic year for gadget fans. All over the world, everyone is taking to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to create pics and vids of themselves zipping around about this 2 wheel contraption which basically appears like a board using a wheel on each side.
A mixture of a skateboard plus a segway, this mini Segway (with no handle) type thing is blowing up in popularity, fuelled in part by the quantity of celebrities that were seen on a single. From Usher to Soulja Boy, Kendall Jenner to Jamie Foxx, all have tried their hand at this nifty little gadget, and seem to own stood a lot of fun this.
Nicknamed the ‘swegway’ (due to it’s likeness towards the Segway, but a ‘cooler’ version) we aren’t sure entirely where this kind of self balancing scooter comes from or who invented the first. More than likely it comes from some factory in China. The very first glimpses we got of it in the media were a product or service called the IO Hawk, a scooter that sells for a stunning $1800. This became last January of 2015. Ever since then many cheaper versions of the same product came in the marketplace and the average price at this time seems to be around $500.
What makes it work? Basically you climb onto both the panels and shift one’s body weight slightly forward or slightly back and it senses this bodyweight change and moves backwards or forwards. It may also turn right or left. This self balancing scooter is proving to be very popular is in reality being touted since the personal mobility device into the future. Who would like to walk when you can glide, right? Plus it’s actually a lot faster than walking, travelling at speeds of 6mph to 10mph.