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Re:RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top spee... by antonioevans on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @11:06PM (#8013372)
Yeah and more crap like Yo! and Make a Potato Salad kickstarters will get funded by people who have 20 bucks to waste. I am not hating on the idea because this isn't new at all. Spend 15 minutes on Alibaba and you'll see most of what most hardware kickstarters are sourcing their stuff. .. And yeah I watched the slickly edited video, but they aren't getting my money.

Also this has nothing to do with optimism vs pessimism, it's that stuff like this shouldn't be on hackerne,ws unless they really are hacking something/creating something/showing something innovative (semi innovative works also).

Re:RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top spee... by jfoster on Thursday July 10, 2014 @01:14AM (#8013734)
Vaporware is stuff that nobody can get. Alibaba hardware is stuff that anyone can get. It can't be both.