Peter Treadway's battery-powered motorized shoes - which we first spied as a concept in mid-2010 - are edging closer to production. Called spnKiX, these electric roller-skates have gone through more ...

Let's say you want to take public transportation to a meeting in the 'burbs, but your destination is about a mile away from the train station. Sure, you could call a cab, wait around for a bus, or ...

UK-based startup Freeaim kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign yesterday to support the release of a pair of motorized shoes designed to enable natural walking in VR, essentially giving your feet two ...

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It was always a weird ambition of mine to own shoes that would turn into little electric cars at the flip of a switch. Probably a lazy one. So I jumped at the chance to try Razor’s Turbo Jetts.

Traffic woes got you down? Or Are you worried about our overdependence on fossil fuels? Why not switch from a motorized vehicle to a pair of motorized shoes? Los-Angeles inventor Peter Treadway has ...

Besides walking, driving, biking, inline skating and running, students can now add cruising on motorized shoes to their list of options to get around campus. Ilya Kaganovich, a University of Minnesota ...

A pair of motorized shoes have been developed by an American inventor. The battery powered high-tech footware called "spnKiX" resemble a cross between a ski boot and a roller skate with oversized ...

There’s no shortage of people trying to make virtual reality gaming a more immersive experience. There are VR arenas where people strap on PC backpacks and play in a pre-programmed area. There are ...