Skate

It goes without saying that if a hockey player isn't skating at their full potential, they're not as good of a player as they could be. That's where Scorched Ice hockey skate sensors are made to come in, as they assess the user's skating performance.

The world's first multi-story skatepark squeezes three skateparks, a climbing wall and a boxing ring into a relatively compact inner-city site.

​Back in June, Segway-Ninebot announced some e-Skates called the Drift W1, which made use of Segway's self-balancing know-how to put a single chunky wheel in each skate. The company brought some to IFA 2018 in Berlin, so naturally we had to try them out.​

In a continuing bid to leverage its self-balancing technology, Segway has revealed its new e-Skates. Essentially two small self-balancing hoverboards, the precarious product is set to be released later this year, offering children – and adults – an entirely new way to injure themselves.

Poland's Jack Skopinski, the force behind the EV4 tilting electric quad we covered last year, has come up with a stand-up contender for the off-road-with-ease crown – some electric off-road rollers with rubber tracks.​

Guy Hollaway Architects is looking to take skateparks to another level with plans for a new multi-story skatepark in the UK. The architects believe it may be the first skatepark of its kind anywhere in the world, with the plans also including facilities for trial cycling, boxing and climbing.

Sparx aims to allow people to sharpen their own skates right in their home with perfect results every single time, saving a trip to the local hockey shop. All of the processes that require skill and practice are automated, which means anyone can do it.

Speed skaters and cyclists use different muscle groups to propel themselves forward. Nikola pedals are designed to let cyclists use both of those groups, for increased power.

While the recent HUVr Tech hoverboard hoax involving Tony Hawk and Christopher Lloyd had the internet buzzing with anticipation, we can now report that a Kickstarter project might finally deliver what we have all been waiting for. Well, sort of ... meet the HoverSkater.

If there's a way to move your legs, there's probably a cycle or scooter that takes advantage of it. We thought we'd seen them all, but after stumbling upon the Aeyo at this week's ISPO Munich show, we realized there's always another wild, new design out there.

Remember back when everyone owned a pair of rollerblades? How about several decades before that, when kids still strapped roller skates onto their shoes? Well, the California-based Cardiff Skate Company has sort of combined the one device with the other.

Flexiskates feature a self-adjusting balancing mechanism for the stability of quad skates and the speed of blades, while also catering for simulated alpine ski carving on pavement.