"Hoverboards" Are the Worst Thing Ever.

We've all seen those people on campus and around town riding the ridiculous two wheeled monstrosity that is the hover board. While the demand for them has already taken quite a hit with all the defects that have come about, such as setting their users on fire, they are still a commodity unfortunately. There are plenty of useless gadgets out there, but the hover board is far and away the worst offender of useless gadgetry.

When we hear "hover board" most people think of the fun and fast board that Marty McFly rides on Back to the Future. These things are not that. They are quite literally just a platform that the rider stands on and slowly moves forward. It's essentially a segway without handlebars, and as we've seen, segways don't have much of a use except by mall cops. Basically the only thing the hover board accomplishes is relieving its average user (a perfectly function teenager most of the time), of the apparently Herculean task of picking their feet up and walking.

These things are not only pointless, but ridiculous from a design perspective. Who wants to carry this around all day? Really. And even if yours doesn't catch on fire, which it probably will, the hover board is no match for those cracks in the sidewalk you would normally step over.

These things are absolutely ridiculous, and I would suggest no one buy one. If these pick up in popularity again I greatly worry for mankind. It's one step away from those floating obesity chairs in Wall-E.

I mean really, look how ridiculous it is. Don't be this guy.