Fancy whizzing around the neighbourhood on a moving plank then you might want to look at the new UM71 motorised skateboard.

Steering is done as per a normal board via leaing and practice , but you control the speed and acceleration via a wire free controller that wouldn’t look out of place attached to a scaletrix set. The skateboard isn’t particularly fast with a top speed of just over 11 mph but when your balancing on board that is going seem more than fast enough. If you were lucky enough to get one of these for Christmas please let us know how many bones you’ve broken so far.

The official site lists the following specs:

• High Impact GRP deck construction
• Hand held wireless remote speed control pod
• 4 Independent UM sprung link struts
• Detachable 7AH 24v battery
• Powerful 150w motor
• Max load — 80KG
• Charge time — 4 – 6 hours
• Max speed — 18kmph
• Max range — 15km
• NW 17kgs
• Size — 980 X 320 X 250mm

[uSurfer UM71 found via some Saturday afternoon random browsing (and then took 4 days to post about it, oops)]