title What do you call that self-balancing two-wheel Chinese Segway-like Scooter Board Thing?
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The best reason to call them
/b hoverboards
is because some nerds get really emotional and strongly insist they're
/b not hoverboards!

/b /big The Wired Magazine article by David Pierce:

* http://www.wired.com/2015/06/the-weird-story-of-the-viral-chinese-scooter-phunkeeduck-io-hawk/

/b /big Wikipedia:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-balancing_two-wheeled_board

/b /big And here is mine:

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I love it!

I paid $500 to a friend John L. Sokol at Hacker Dojo for it.  (He ordered it from someone in China for significantly less.)
I did that because I've seen his used at Hacker Dojo by lots of people for over a month,
so I know the ones he gets are sturdy, and the battery life is at least 2 hours.

I've seen "Smart Drifterz" for sale in Westfield Valley Fair mall in San Jose.
The dude in the mall told me they went for $700, or $900 for the larger model (bigger wheels and plays music).
I've also heard they're for sale for $1000 in malls, but I don't really know that.
The web site http://smartdrifters.com/ today says $895 for the classic, $1195 for the