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This big skateboard has a small electric motor. It uses this to keep pace with it's owner, like a small dog. Once the owner is running as fast as they can, they step/leap onto the board. At this point the RoverBoard becomes a normal skateboard (the motor is switched off).
This allows the 'owner' to
run, which is clearly faster than scooting.
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Is it on a leash? It should be tracking/pacing the runner like a good dog. This board needs to follow closely (to the side of the runner?), but stop if necessary. Perhaps have a sensor that applies the brakes if it gets too far away. You don't want to chase a wayward RoverBoard. |
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No Leash. Just clever sensors, a computer brain, and a wireless bracelet that the board can track. |
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I like the concept. But the method wasn't in the idea, although any reasonable crackpot could work up something. The method in the annotation, I don't like. |
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Oh, [humanzee], why put a swinging bracelet WYBCNBASAAD (when your bot can never be as smart as a dog)? - better place the tracking device in your waist. |
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Again, why abandon the leash thing WYBCNBASAAD? - better have a sensorized retractable chord that disengages as you step in. |
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And what is computer brain? Doesn't you have the brain and the bot has the computer? |
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//Doesn't you have the brain?// [marked-for-tagline], superb! |
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All you need is a switch which runs the
board up to a pre-set (user-set) speed
when you turn it on, and which turns off
when you get on the board. Let the user
track the board, not vice versa. |
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Oh, and, hyphntn.: dog-like, self-
propelled. |
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