WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.400 They keep getting me to do these damn things. Okay, so the company's called Rollwalk 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.560 and these are called the ERW3s. 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:12.120 But look at that, 32 kilometers an hour. I don't even know if I wanna walk that fast. 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:15.680 That's pretty fast. I'll be impressed. What is that? 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:20.320 You wanna go fast? There should be another picture where he has his arms out. 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:23.880 That's how you really cruise. What else we got here? These are the shoes themselves. 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:28.640 They're pretty heavy. I feel like they're lighter than the moonwalkers. 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:32.860 But this is a different form factor. More of a platform, like they're taller. 00:00:32.860 --> 00:00:38.240 The moonwalks had the wheels kind of more integrated. The radius of the wheel wasn't as great. 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:42.220 So they were just flatter. These are a lot more like roller skates. 00:00:42.220 --> 00:00:45.720 And then a simpler strapping mechanism as well. 00:00:45.720 --> 00:00:49.920 Oh, you actually get a handheld remote for speed and stuff. 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.320 Acceleration and brake. That is confidence inspiring. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.520 And then you've got your big fat charging brick. Now, of course, this is the pro model. 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:03.080 There's a non-pro model that has less battery capacity as some smaller charger. 00:01:03.080 --> 00:01:06.840 And then some parts. Oh my God, I don't want my shoes to come apart. 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.440 Oh, you can switch it up and we could match my jacket. 00:01:10.440 --> 00:01:13.640 That's cool. What's the USB key? 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:18.160 Oh, just charging this guy, I guess. Oh my God, it's micro B. 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:22.480 It's a micro B. I haven't seen that on a new product in like four years. 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:27.320 Oh my God, there's this decals or decals. 00:01:27.320 --> 00:01:32.160 Yeah, that's funny. These look like they just stick on here. You know what, I'm gonna do a couple. 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:35.280 Why not? Oh no, it's gonna wrinkle. 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:39.240 Ah, it's still brutal. You know what? 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:42.400 Don't look at me. All right, so let's look at the shoe. 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.640 So it's got like a soft rubber kind of pad here. 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:50.800 Pretty robust. Your sole, your shoe goes on. It'd be weird to wear no shoes with this thing. 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:55.760 Very simple Velcro. That's it, a small amount of padding here. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.080 A heel stopper, that could be uncomfortable. No padding there. 00:01:59.080 --> 00:02:02.320 Okay, so you don't have to mess with the nuance 00:02:02.320 --> 00:02:05.720 of the super granular and continuous adjustment strap every time. 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:08.760 You can just, because it has that stretch, 00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:12.840 go and click it in. Is it almost magnetic? That is kind of sick. 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.520 Look at that. That is pretty cool. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.920 And oh, and then you go this way to take that off. That is pretty cool. 00:02:20.920 --> 00:02:27.200 Then you've got presumably an on button and a little waterproof, gasketed charging port. 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:31.440 There's a charging port on each one. 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:38.360 So you can actually take this charger, which is split and charge them both at the same time. 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.240 I don't know what red means yet. We're gonna have to go back to work. Letcha-cha. 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.640 Pre-driving preparation, they call it driving. 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:50.080 Synchronous remote control technology makes the two skates the same speed. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.880 That seems useful. Boom. Wow, look at the screen on that. 00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:58.080 That is like a Tamagotchi. That is low-res, baby. 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.200 Hey, but you want the battery to last in this thing. They want you to start on low, 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:04.720 but I'm gonna become a pro today, I'll tell you that. You know what? 00:03:04.720 --> 00:03:07.880 I'm ready to walk and roll. Let's just wing it. 00:03:07.880 --> 00:03:11.980 Boom, they're on. I bet you could get pretty fast. 00:03:11.980 --> 00:03:15.240 As you can see, I'm an X-man now. 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:18.320 They actually sell all this gear. Be safe, you know. 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:22.880 You're gonna be going 30 kilometers an hour. Got knee pads, double pads, wrist pads. 00:03:22.880 --> 00:03:29.280 The lanyard on the remote already broke when I was trying to put the lanyard on over this wrist pad, 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.600 so your mileage may vary there. So far, my mileage is zero. 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:36.040 Oh, God. Okay, whoa. 00:03:37.720 --> 00:03:43.180 Okay, it's like wearing roller blades. Holding this with the wrist pad on is less than ideal. 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:45.740 I'm gonna try to accelerate. 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:50.880 Oh my God. Oh God, it's a good, okay. 00:03:52.040 --> 00:03:55.360 Later, b****. I don't know how to turn. 00:03:57.640 --> 00:04:00.640 The thing with the moonwalkers was that you actually 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:06.760 were skating and that kind of made it more intuitive, whereas when this is kind of driving itself, 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:12.000 I guess you can still do a skating motion to turn. Can I just lean to turn? 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.560 Ah, no, don't do that. Oh, whoa. 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:20.520 You got, oh, that's why they tell you to go forward. Because there's, okay, this is actually something 00:04:20.520 --> 00:04:24.140 that's useful now. And you kind of can turn by leaning. 00:04:27.260 --> 00:04:29.580 Oh my God, I feel powerful as hell. 00:04:31.660 --> 00:04:35.580 Ha, ha, ha. Yes. 00:04:37.020 --> 00:04:40.200 Power. Yeah. 00:04:42.100 --> 00:04:45.060 I feel like I could probably get a lot better at this 00:04:46.460 --> 00:04:50.000 over time and not look like such liability. 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:56.600 Hey, what's up, Jake? How you doing, man? No, this is regular. Hey, I'm gonna come over and break, holy. 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.480 Oh God. I feel like these actually kind of deliver 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:02.000 on what they promise. 00:05:09.960 --> 00:05:13.880 How fast am I going here? 21. Whoa. 00:05:13.880 --> 00:05:18.160 Okay. I think I could get reasonably good at moving around quickly on these. 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:23.320 I don't know how fast you can stop. You can stop within five seconds, 00:05:23.320 --> 00:05:26.840 but I don't think you can stop in terms of like, oh no, there's a car there. 00:05:26.840 --> 00:05:32.040 Like fast, kind of scary. At first, I feel a little stiff, like I'm like, you know, 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.640 whoa. But over time, it feels more fluid and natural, 00:05:35.640 --> 00:05:40.000 like more athletic. You can move through it, kind of like skiing. Turning seems to be easier at faster speeds. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.240 Although it was a bit iffy, but when you're going faster, 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:47.160 you can kind of steer around things similar to roller skates, I'd say. 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:51.160 And you definitely have to lean forward, especially when you start getting going. 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:55.760 Otherwise, you'll fall backward. So I found that I prefer to have my left foot forward 00:05:55.760 --> 00:05:58.840 and kind of, I mean, the noodle arms are just for fun, 00:05:58.840 --> 00:06:03.640 but you do need to be leaned over like this. But I think that as I was more comfortable, 00:06:03.640 --> 00:06:07.960 I would switch which leg was forward. One of the issues with these is the fit onto the shoe. 00:06:07.960 --> 00:06:13.440 I definitely feel like my foot can roll off. I'd rather this toe strap was up here, 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:16.800 but I don't really feel like I have a lot of ability to shift that. 00:06:16.840 --> 00:06:20.840 I wear a size 10 usually, 10 ish, 10 and a half. 00:06:22.200 --> 00:06:26.960 I wish I could slide this forward or slide that back. 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:32.320 Some ability in this plane to adjust them so I could have the straps at the strongest part of the foot. 00:06:32.320 --> 00:06:34.320 Like covering my mid foot would be great. 00:06:40.840 --> 00:06:46.560 What are these? These are too cool for you, losers. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.560 We made it back alive, barely. Obviously that was a bit of a flail show, 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:54.920 but I am confident that within like a day, I would look a lot more graceful out there. 00:06:54.920 --> 00:07:00.320 Definitely was happy to have these pads though, even though I was talking smack earlier. 00:07:00.320 --> 00:07:05.600 That said, the whole like five seconds to get set up thing when you have to put all these pads on, 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:11.640 it's more like five minutes. So should you buy these things? I will say that I'm less likely to wear these indoors, 00:07:11.640 --> 00:07:16.320 like at the grocery store, like they advertise, pushing your car around with these. I'm less likely to do that, 00:07:16.320 --> 00:07:20.880 given that A, they don't have that intuitive walking motion, 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:24.000 like the moonwalks, where you just walk like a normal human 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.320 and then the faster you walk, the faster they travel. Rather, these are just motorized shoes, really. 00:07:29.320 --> 00:07:32.320 So you're standing still at low speeds, it's just more awkward. 00:07:32.320 --> 00:07:36.880 Secondly, you gotta hold this in your hand. How am I gonna push a shopping cart with one hand? 00:07:36.880 --> 00:07:40.400 Well, my other hand manipulates this thing. Third, stairs. 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:46.000 Doesn't seem like a good idea. These just free roll all the time. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.320 They don't have a lock feature, as far as I'm aware, 00:07:49.320 --> 00:07:53.520 so that I could actually press my toe down, like this is the only thing making contact with a stair 00:07:53.520 --> 00:07:59.560 and it's not gonna roll. Yeah, limited utility to wear them beyond your commute. 00:08:00.440 --> 00:08:02.960 As for the commuting part, though, they're faster. 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.420 If they fit your foot well and you're confident in them, you could get places, 00:08:07.420 --> 00:08:11.960 but why not just get a scooter you can hop on and off? I don't know, and you probably pay less. 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:16.920 How much do these things cost? These are $600 US dollars. The non-pros are $500. 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:22.520 That's a lot. Scooters are also pretty expensive, but probably more versatile and resellable 00:08:22.520 --> 00:08:25.920 and there's competition in that space. Hey, these are cheaper than the moonwalkers, 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:30.200 that's for sure. Those two products are kind of on the same hierarchy. So since these are like a third of the price, 00:08:30.200 --> 00:08:34.320 then that's great. Oh, they got their work cut out from getting people to try to buy these and wear these 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:37.400 and use these all over the town. So they advertise a range for the batteries, 00:08:37.400 --> 00:08:40.760 about 15 miles, and these can go up to 20 miles per hour. 00:08:40.760 --> 00:08:44.000 So if you were ripping at the highest pro speed, 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:48.040 I guess you could get about 45 minutes of battery life and they charge in one hour. 00:08:48.040 --> 00:08:52.560 So just considering what kind of commute I would want if I was the ideal customer for this. 00:08:52.560 --> 00:08:55.560 I don't think it's worth it if you have a 20 minute walk to work, that's a short walk, 00:08:55.560 --> 00:08:59.640 but if you had a 40 minute walk to work and maybe no good bus service, 00:08:59.640 --> 00:09:03.360 and this could cut it down to 20 or 15. 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:10.320 I just don't think there's anywhere that these can go where you can't use another more normal, possibly cheaper 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:14.320 and more versatile means of transportation like a bicycle or a scooter. 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:18.840 It's just weird that you can't hop off and just be safe on your feet and like chill. 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.440 You can do that with almost all the other ones. So glad I experienced it. 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.240 I'm just not convinced there's a future where these are mainstream. So thanks for watching guys. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:30.760 If you're interested in this and you wanna see other hijinks, watch me try the shift moonwalkers on ShortCircuit. 00:09:30.760 --> 00:09:34.240 That was a time. Survive that one too. 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:35.560 I was doing more jumps.