Forget Segway, Let's See These on the Streets

Segway, Smegway. An overpriced scooter if you ask me. Why haven't we heard anything about the Airboard, distributed just up the street from our O'Reilly Sebastopol office at Zap! Basically its a mini-hovercraft that floats three or four inches above the ground and speeds along at around 15 mph. Got some money to burn? You can buy one right now(!) for $9,500. Where it's not the hovering skateboard I drooled over in Back to the Future II (bad movie, cool hoverboard made it memorable though), at least it does more then reinvent the wheel.

Hoverboards not your style? How about the Millennium SoloTrek, a personal air transport machine which looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Maybe SoloTrek is a little too James Bond for your style, and the Hoverboard is a little slow. I've found just the thing for you... the Moller SkyCar, "the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen." Heck, they claim this thing will cruise at 350mph comfortably at 15 mpg. So you'll be cruising along just fine, except you'll have to stop for gas a lot.