“Picture the wheel of your skate following a long, infinite wave.”
So say the instructions for riding the Orbitwheel, a mash-up between inline skates and a skateboard or, more correctly, between those dangerous strap-on roller skates and a snakeboard.
The Orbitwheel actually looks pretty easy to ride, but then I said that about the skateboard when I first saw one and quickly proved myself wrong with a comedy, tooth-cracking faceplant. The hub-less wheels mean you have the bump-soaking abilities of a large wheel combined with a low sense of gravity and, as the instructional video (below) tells us, you can pump your way along in a skateboard tic-tac motion.
It looks like a lot of fun, and any video can only benefit from a Star Wars like opening sequence of scrolling text, in this case seeking to exempt the company from any kind of liability. We interpret it as meaning that the Orbitwheel is awesomely dangerous.
Product page [Inventist via Oh Gizmo!]
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