This year’s ispo BrandNew award winner, the Easy-Glider, is a very cool motorized twist on the old Bronze Age horse drawn chariot design. A bunch of tree hugging do-gooders out of Switzerland are the masterminds behind this new eco friendly form of personal mobility which can take you up to 13 miles on a single charge.
Easy-Glider can be used as a stand alone hauler that will pull you on a set of rollerblades or a skateboard at speeds up to 12 MPH. For those of you who are not so athletically inclined, you can simply clip on the optional trailer and enjoy the ride.
This is really quite an engineering achievement and a nice step in the right direction towards eco friendly personal mobility but I worry that this kind of technology is going to be a cancer on already lazy Americans. Are we to the point that we can’t pump our legs for a nice trip on our rollerblades or simply kick a foot to glide along on a skateboard?
