[bnzelener]

Really curious what Boosted Boards' 'bigger ambitions than making skateboards' are! A friend has one of their Kickstarter boards and it's unreal.

[_sentient]

They are solving the last mile problem in public transportation. That's a very large market.

[yitchelle]

Hmm..classifying a motorised skateboard as a possible solution to public transportation's last mile problem is a far stretch.

The folks that could really benefit from a solution are the elderly, physically disabled and young kids. For the life of me, I would find it difficult to see the majority of these folks riding a skateboard.

[CaveTech]

But isn't that their current ambition? Where's the bigger picture?

[frakkingcylons]

I believe their ambition is solving the problem presented in one of YC's requests for startups -- specifically short-distance personal transportation for everyone.

[downandout]

This caught my attention as well...he said it with the same kind of passion that Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos had for Segway. Obviously Segway didn't live up to the anyone's expectations. Hopefully pg isn't nearly as far off the mark as those guys were.

[zindlerb]

The boards are a way to make sales while they create better batteries. Batteries are often the limiting factor in current tech products.

[t0]

Hoverboards or some sort of motorized shoes