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we what's amazing about one wheel is the experience of riding we combine the motion sensing technology from the smartphone the motor and battery technology like you find in a Tesla create a self-balancing electric skateboard control simply by leaning your body we started with a dream of a hoverboard the smooth feeling of flying over pavement inspired by this vision in the future we created an incredible ride that feels like a natural extension of your balance one wheel is designed to be intuitive whether you're a pro or never been on a board you can learn the basics in under a minute and there's plenty of room to challenge yourself by riding more aggressively or inventing new tricks there are no hand controls you just lean toward your front foot to go faster and your back foot to slow down or even reverse regenerative braking kicks and as you come to a stop at the heart of one wheel is a state-of-the-art direct-drive brushless motor in the hub of the film movement and balance are achieved by a custom controller the reads gyro and accelerometer sensors thousands times a second the high-speed charger gives a lithium batteries minutes administrator we made one wheel unusable in dynamic experience and unlike skateboarding where you feel every little crack and pebble in the street one wheel feels a lot more like surfing or snowboarding the large tire and carefully tuned algorithms allow you to carve the pavement as if it were water or fresh powder this wonderful feeling of just stepping on this thing and thinking about where you want to go and you're off you lean very much like you do on a snowboard you just kind of lean into the turns you want to go on and one wheel just kind of carves for you some pretty magical experience prototypes to get one wheel to where it is today everyone who rides it loves it and with your help we want to make one wheel available to the world we've worked with all kinds of manufacturers on other projects and we believe the u.s. is the best place to build an advanced products like one way but that kind of quality cost money so we need backers like you who share our vision of creating amazing electric vehicles with your backing will pay for tooling costs and build the first ever one wheel production join us in revolutionising the experienced ride how do you engineer an experience when you strip away everything weighing you down holding you back you begin to float away weightless hovering this is the hoverboard the essence of pure motion captured refined and reinvented the hoverboard translates your will into motion a single point of contact with the ground minimizes friction and freeze your movement from a linear path inside precision sensors and electronics smooth and stabilize your ride gently accelerating in whichever direction you mean the controls are intuitive gently apply pressure to one end of the board to accelerate lean gently to one side of the other to turn in that direction when you stop you can set the board down on its side to dismount the electric motor powers a top speed of 20 miles per hour perfectly balancing safety with efficiency at if return in my first company I had to figure out some way to pack all the control electronics and the drive electronics into the motor itself I succeeded in doing that and we called the product the smart motor that really poised to me perfectly for making the ultimate personal electric vehicle the hoverboard moves you but it's also a part of you with endless personalization options to make your hoverboard a perfect fit for you built-in speakers pair with your smartphone giving you the perfect soundtrack for your daily commute or weekend Joyride onboard lighting gives you visibility at night letting you ride a cloud of light to your destination the hoverboard is perfectly balanced in both form and function it's fully electronic whisper quiet and amazingly efficient the high-capacity battery takes you 15 to 20 miles on a single charge and the best part it's not just an idea we are riding the experience today thing that sets hoverboard apart is that it really does take skill to operate it's an earned experience you have to get in touch with the nuances of the hoverboard and once you do the reward is a gliding kind of willful experience that carries you where you want to go the hoverboard is an ultimate form in a new class of electronic transportation connecting us to our world in a way we've never experienced before as of this moment that we're shooting this video there are only six people on the planet that can ride a hoverboard we all have one thing in common we cannot stop writing it so we want to find out how many other people share our passion for the hoverboard and we've set up our Kickstarter reward tiers to reward those people the most who sign up first you