After spending a few days wading through the sea of cutting edge technology on display at CES, you start to notice certain trends happening in the industry. This year, among a few other trends, we noticed a rising tide of personal transportation machines — or as I like to call them, motorized wheelie gizmos.
For the past few years, two things have been happening: Electric motors have steadily gotten smaller and more powerful, and batteries have become drastically more capacitous and long-lasting.
That might not sound particularly groundbreaking or revolutionary, since most technology seems to become smaller and more powerful over time, but what’s happened in this case is these two trends have coalesced and blended together to create a sort of renaissance in personal mobility devices.
Now more than ever, there are all manner of cool little wheeled gizmos hitting the market. Electric scooters, gyroscopically-stabilized unicycles, motorized skates that strap onto your shoes — they’re absolutely everywhere at CES this year, and each one is different than the last.
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