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by trhway 4364 days ago
the founder was a teenager in 198x - that explains "Back to the Future 2" design, etc. As another 40+ years old a&& i'd personally feel strange trying to push a "cool and fun" thing to the 20+ years olds. (Even such an unquestionably cool, in my mind, thing as a million bucks is far from being cool for these youngsters :).

Wrt. all these new devices, mostly electrical - they are victims of "uncanny valley" effect - unmoving/freezed human body at speeds less than 20mph looks spooky. Even electric bicycles look this way.