Durable Plastic

Durable plastic. Wheelies and spinouts! Goes forward! SkateBot from Playtime, circa 1986. Robot. Varibot. Frontside Indy! Radical? ebay!

Extreme conditions require Extreme!™ simulations

You’d never guess what this contraption was if you didn’t know already, or the title of the post didn’t give you an inkling. It’s not the newest wackyboard. Take your best shot and get the answer after the jump. [Source: AL.com] – Thanks to Eric Cherry (again) for the tip.

Skatebot from Chris Dyer

Chris Dyer AKA Positive Creations made this giant robot sculpture out of skateboards. I was going to say it was transformer-esque but it’s more like one of those hydraulic humanoid lifts from Aliens. I’m sure there’s a name for that genre of sci-fi machinery, but I’m not young and or cool/nerdy to know the term. […]

Skateboard Robot CES

I have no life

Back in 2005 I saved this image to my hard drive. Where did it come from? Right, this is Gizmodo shot of the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. I shrunk and doubled it up to save some space. It’s full size on the Giz, and it’s R-R-Radical!