What’s more, the Blink Board only asks an hour for a full charge, which is less time than one would spend at a brunch anyway.įinally, the Blink Board is available with two unique graphics: "Purple Pattern" is a tribute to the '80s, featuring a sticker bomb pattern of stars and planets, hexagon emojis and Illuminati symbols (weird, but I dig it). The range may not sound like a lot, but it’s actually a very practical number considering that my walk from the iDigi office to the World Trade Center E train subway stop is 0.7 miles. The 2Ah lithium battery provides the Blink Board with a max range of 6 miles at speeds up to 15 mph. The extra space between the trucks also enabled Acton to fit a relatively generous battery for its size. However, in order to retain some of the stability found in longboards, Acton pushed the trucks to the far edges of the board for a longer wheelbase. While most rival electric skateboard companies have adopted a longboard design to allow for less restrictive battery designs, Acton chose the more compact Penny skateboard design for both a size and weight advantage. In order to serve as a "last mile" mode of transportation without limitations, the Blink Board had to be easy to handle, lightweight and durable without being prohibitively expensive. Treadway said the packaging was the biggest challenge in designing the Blink Board.
All in all, the Blink Board weighs just nine pounds. Under the Blink Board's 27-inch Canadian maple deck is a slim lithium ion battery pack, highlighted with a slick LED light strip, that powers an electric motor on one of its fluorescent rear wheels. In fact, it would be hard to tell a Blink Board from the retro Penny skateboards popular in the '80s at first glance and that's probably the biggest compliment Acton hopes to hear. Treadway and the Acton Blink Board visited iDigitalTimes and invited us to have a closer look.Īcton boasts the Blink Board is the world's lightest electric skateboard and I wouldn't bet against it: the packaging is extremely smart and compact.
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Treadway describes the Blink Board as highly portable transportation designed for "the last mile." Whether you're leaving a train station or wherever you park your car, the Blink Board will scoot you along for that final stretch to your destination. To be fair, the Blink Board isn't a hoverboard either, but Acton co-founder and CTO Peter Treadway never claimed it was and, unlike the Swagway, the electric-powered skateboard at least got the second half of the moniker right. We're better than that and Acton's new Blink Board is here to prove it. But let's be real: McFly's iconic "hoverboard" is wasted on this silly looking gimmick.
The absence of the real hoverboard in 2015 brought forth an appetite for self-balancing scooters – better known as Swagways, PunkeeDucks and Soulja Boards – that adopted the hoverboard term and ran with it. However, despite the movie’s impact on pop culture, reality ultimately paints a different picture. The "future" was supposed to promise flying cars running on garbage, self-lacing Nikes and, of course, the slick hoverboard.
The Lite will be able to satisfy recreational boarding purposes while also acting as an alternative method for getting to your destination, all in 7.7 pounds.The 1989 classic flick Back To The Future II set some lofty expectations for Oct. The BLINK Lite is the ideal board for cruising, from coasting down boardwalks to quick rides to the corner store. One thing to note is that the BLINK Lite is not designed to handle longboarding styles such as freeriding and downhill boarding. The BLINK Lite–similar to a cruiser board–is meant for casual boarding while the compact size allows the Lite to be carried around conveniently. Engineered to be the lightest electric skateboard on the market, the BLINK Lite is ideal for quick rides when you may need something fun and light with little to no maintenance for daily use. The BLINK Lite is designed to be a recreational alternative to the traditional electric longboards that are built purely for power. In the new iteration of the remote, the BLINK Lite is able to accelerate forwards and reverse with a simple slide of a switch. The LED strip from the BLINK Board remains present in the new design, although on the side of a slimmer battery case under the BLINK Lite. The Blink Lite has a redesigned fishtail shaped deck which has been made flat to allow for better comfort and foot placement while riding. The hub motor provides smooth acceleration as well as low resistance when the motor is inactive, which allows for long cruises when not accelerating. The BLINK Lite is ACTON’s newest and lightest electric assisted skateboard! At just 7.7 lbs, the BLINK Lite is significantly lighter than the original BLINK Board while also possessing an electric in-wheel hub motor.
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