Very cool.
They should partner up w/ these guys: http://www.phloater.knarleymax.com/
Then you'd have a full-suspension, stair-descending skateboard!
Also, I'd like to know what significance the center beam has? It seems to be acting as a point of contact on the stairs? If not, then why is it so low?
I'd like to see this thing:
1. Set up w/ Drop-through trucks. (to get it a little lower to the ground) 2. W/ a raised center-beam. (for better ground-clearance)

Being a skateboarder for over 25 years, when I see something like this I feel nauseous and offended. This is a joke. It's not good at anything but descending stairs and I bet that isn't all that great either, new tricks? Really? Willing to bet an ollie isn't even possible on that thing.
Get a real board, learn to skate, then get some speed and bust a big melancholy grab down that set of stairs instead. The beauty of the skateboard is its simplicity, I'm all for innovation but this compromises everything and leaves nothing in my personal opinion, sorry but that's just my $.02. Peace.

I was really interested in this invention until I watched the video which is such a sentimental, pseudo-intellectual piece of wank I'd be surprised if anyone donates.

It's twice as heavy and expensive as a longboard. The stair-roving feature isn't worth the trouble or cost, and probably makes a noisy racket doing it. Finally, it will probably have serious durability issues with the beating it will get over the course of its use.

This should be very fast on the flat.
Because this follows Bill Allison's notion that 8 wheels provides the best of everything provided that they are bogied both front and back.
There is one step above and beyond this.
Too many unthinking people believe that 3 wheels provide less rolling resistance but it simply is not true.
If it were true then Rail Cars would run on 3 wheels, but they run on independently bogged pairs of 8 wheels.
Build a model of 4 wheels, 6 wheels, and 8 wheels bogied and see which one will move the fastest, and travel the farthest....
Use a board to establish an inclined plane.
8 wheels always wins.
Bill, who lamented that he had spent a lifetime designing suspensions, including the Hudson seen in the movei "Cars" and the Packard Torsion Ride lamented that he finally figured it out in his retirement.
And yes he is the guy who hit the Betz Limit with his wind engine but you will not show it because he did it over 30 years ago yet it remains totally ingenious.
Bill

All that "fusion with the urban environment" talk is just crap. Show it fusing by going up stairs and I'll go to the Kickstarter page. Until then, it's a gimmick that comes at the expense of what defines a skateboard - the beauty of simplicity.

It's been awhile since junior high but if I'm not mistaken we used to ride our clay wheel boards down the stairs. Sure it was rough, but it was fun!

Remember when skaters used to grind the rails to go down the stairs? Pepperidge Farm Remembers...

Being a van courier this skateboard has given me an idea for a trolley based on it. Couriers don't like stairs, for obvious reasons. Welding together something like this could be the answer.

I think this is brilliant! I bet gliding on stairs will be very exciting...