ROCKET POWERED: An attendee trying Acton's RocketSkates at the 2015 International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada. The motorised skates that you strap to your shoes are powered by Lithium Ion batteries and can go up to 12 mph.
LAS VEGAS: A host of newfangled wheeled devices unveiled this week offer innovative solutions to urban transport which could fulfil the failed ambitions of the Segway.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, developers showed off several self-balancing wheeled contraptions that aim to provide environmentally friendly short-distance transport, as well as a host of other gadgets: skateboards, roller skates and a variety of scooter-like vehicles.
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