Segway Now Sells a Kit to Turn Your Hoverboard Into a Bead-Blasting Tank

These days you actually solely hear about hoverboards on “hey, do you remember?…” lists. But Ninebot, the corporate who purchased the Segway model, actually desires them to nonetheless be a factor and continues to cook dinner up wacky add-ons for the self-balancing units, together with a brand new ride-on that turns them into a tank that really fires.

This isn’t the primary time Ninebot has tried to make its self-balancing units appear extra enjoyable. Back in 2018, it created an add-on package that turned the $1,000 Segway miniPro right into a go-kart kind contraption full with a steering wheel and foot pedals for braking and acceleration. For 2021, the corporate has give you an excellent higher option to terrorize your neighborhood with the Ninebot Mecha Kit that seems to be taking part in quick and free with the time period, ‘mecha’.

Mecha is a time period normally reserved for towering armored robots piloted by a human inside, not a rolling seat powered by both a Ninebot S-Pro, Ninebot S, or Ninebot S Kids hoverboard strapped to its underside. Instead of the rider having to lean their physique ahead and again to cease and go, the Ninebot Mecha Kit features a pair of joysticks which are utilized in tandem to steer the automobile round. The sticks additionally solely operate once they detect they’re being held, so in the event that they’re bumped when somebody is awkwardly climbing out and in of the automobile, it received’t out of the blue speed up away.

The Ninebot Mecha Kit really sounds lots safer than utilizing considered one of Ninebot’s hoverboards by itself as a result of there’s no method a rider is ever going to faceplant with it, however all these security positive aspects exit the window while you issue within the pair of blasters sitting on both aspect of the rider. Instead of froth darts, they shoot tiny water-saturated beads and whereas they’re a lot softer than paintballs (and easily flip to mud once they dry up) it’s uncertain anybody is definitely going to wish to get hit with one. In the promotional video and photographs everyone seems to be sporting security goggles, which tells you all you should learn about how highly effective these blasters are.

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The Ninebot Mecha Kit can be wirelessly related to a smartphone app and managed from afar like an RC toy, so it may probably facilitate an impromptu Battlebot-like skirmish—with a a lot steeper price ticket. The add-on package itself is $500, whereas the most affordable Ninebot hoverboard is the children’ model that also prices $400. If you need extra pace and vary earlier than a recharge, you’ll must spend much more than that.