- Tricks!
Tricks!
(xylophone music)
So, last year, remember,
last year I started a hoverboard company at TechCrunch.
Just as an idea, it was like the beginning of the fad,
and I was like, let me start this,
make a quick website and see how many I can sell,
ride 'em around, fall, hurt myself.
(laughs) Have you seen Mike,
did you send me the Mike Tyson falling one?
(laughs) That is so funny.
Sold a bunch of hoverboards and then I shut it down.
I wrote about it, it's all over TechCrunch.
Then a company called EPIKGO,
they say, oh, we created this new hoverboard.
It's like way more advanced,
we have a whole team working on it.
And you know, I'm curious, so I'm like,
what could be different from this one, to the past ones?
So they send it to me.
I go in, open it up, excited to see it.
From looking at it at the beginning,
it doesn't look too different than my hoverboard.
I mean, it might be a little, it could be a little meatier.
But it has the same buttons, the same look and feel.
Even the sound when you turn it on and off,
it makes the same, it makes the same sound.
Why am I sitting in this chair?
I should probably get a more comfortable chair.
Alright.
Are we good?
- [Man] We're good.
- So we take it and I ride it around.
First, I leave the TechCrunch office.
Security's there.
(laughs) Security.
Security loves me, so, you know,
hang out with them for a little bit.
And then, we roll down and we roll outside.
Now, this is where some real world testing happens,
and also, my sweet tricks.
Got so many sweet tricks, baby.
Get out there.
Tricks and tricks, more tricks.
Is this thing waterproof?
I don't know.
They say it's pretty rugged
and we take it through some puddles.
Luckily, it had been raining.
And then I had an idea.
I got the best idea ever.
So, get up there, take some awesome sweet shots of myself.
This thing, it's very similar to other hoverboards.
I mean, it's like the same speed,
like ten miles per hour.
The battery lasts about hour and a half, maybe.
That's like, that's what they told me.
And then of course, like, other TechCrunchers,
they wanna come and try it out.
They come out on their bike.
I'm like, no, this is a hoverboard zone only.
Like, get with the program, bro.
And so, I kick them out of there.
And then, more sweet tricks.
I did so many sweet tricks that day.
Ah, tricks are the best.
Tricks, bros.
Dude, we're gonna do so many tricks!
Like, I feel super cool when I'm doing tricks.
Like everyone looks so impressed with me.
I go around and just show people like,
damn, Tito, you're super cool.
Then, we come into the office.
You have to do the office chair test, it's mandatory.
Sit in there, ride all around the office,
wreak havoc, fall over.
That was the only big fall of the day, surprisingly.
Then go and compare it against the old hoverboard
that we have laying around here.
I also broke it.
It's broken now.
The hoverboard's broken.
I wish it wasn't, but I did too many
sweet tricks throughout the day.
600 bucks, that's what you wanna know.
How much does a hoverboard from EPIKGO cost?
It costs 600.
How much do they cost on Amazon?
They range.
How explosive are they?
They range in explosivity.
Overall, overall it was a very fun day.
I had a lot of fun.
And, I hope that they send me another one.
Hoverboards are fun.
They're fun, but they're also scary.
Have you ever fallen on one?
You get way too confident on them.
You go fast, boom, you hit a wall, you fall over.
Happened to me twice.
If you're interested in a hoverboard,
this EPIKGO hoverboard is pretty much the same
as all other hoverboards.
So, you know, I give it a decent rating.
The fad of hoverboards has passed.
People don't really care what brand it is or anything.
But anyway, this was the EPIKGO.
Okay, bye.
(xylophone music)