THEY look like mini-skateboards and are ridden sideways. Now the entrepreneur bringing Drift Skates to Australia says they will revolutionise board sports. The pair of skates, ridden sideways like a ...

In a continuing bid to leverage its self-balancing technology and reclaim the personal transportation throne stolen by the ubiquitous hoverboards, Segway has just revealed its latest "fun mobility ...

They're called the Drift W1, and offer a powered alternative to inline skates. Segway actually refers to them as "e-Skates" and as TechCrunch reports, they are set to launch at some point in August ...

When was the last time you seriously saw kids and adults (OK, mostly adults) on roller or inline skates? While skateboards never truly disappeared and continue to have a sub-culture, skates have ...

Aloysius Low is a Senior Editor at CNET covering mobile and Asia. Based in Singapore, he loves playing Dota 2 when he can spare the time and is also the owner-minion of two adorable cats. But here I ...

This is the Segway Drift W1. You probably haven’t heard of it. I know I haven’t. But why haven’t we heard of it? Well, keep reading. When you look at the Drift 1, or Drifts rather, you don’t really ...

Segway Europe has unveiled a new Segway skate design in the form of the Segway Drift W1 e-Skates which will soon be available to purchase although no prices or availability have been confirmed as yet ...

The new Segway electric states unveiled back in June 2018 have raised more than $570,000 thanks to over 1250 backers since its launch earlier this month. Watch the demonstration video embedded below ...

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Back in June, Segway-Ninebot announced some e-Skates called the Drift W1. These were no inlines or quads, but made use of Segway's self-balancing know-how to put a single chunky wheel in each skate – ...

Disgraceful name appropriation aside, hoverboards have blessed us with many an exploitative YouTube compilation. And given the number of bruised coccyxes hoverboards are responsible for, you'd think ...