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skateboarding's great but it requires just too much physical effort here's something that fixes that though is the unique ego Cruiser an electric skateboard so this thing is battery-powered you drive it using this remote you push this lever forward to accelerate and pull it back to hit the brake what's interesting about the brake is that it's regenerative braking that means that when you hit the brake you'll actually charge up the skateboard battery ever so slightly it takes three hours to charge completely and on a full charge it can go 80 miles at the speed limit is 13 miles per hour although I'm certainly not brave enough to go that fast if you take a look underneath you can see this long stretch here that's mostly battery and the battery is flexible too so if you're jumping around on top of the board it won't just snap in half it's one wheel drive and this thing can handle a maximum incline of 10 degrees there are a couple of really nice design touches here for example this whole thing's waterproof so you can ride it through puddles without having to worry and on the bottom there's a USB port for charging up your phone as if that's not enough the remote has a flashlight on it and if you download an app you can actually control the sink using your smartphone although then you do risk dropping it as you're whizzing along the pavement I'm not very good but it's still a lot of fun to drive and the braking actually is quite gentle you don't fly off the front of this thing as soon as you hit the brakes it's going to cost $700 when it comes out available online and that's all from me I'm the Westway for CNET's here at CES 2014 check out CES cnet.com for more you