Hasta La Ideas

I doubt you’ll be able to do 360 kickflips on it, but recent RCA grad Po-Chih Lai’s bad-ass skateboard can do something others can’t: Smoothly descend a staircase.

Fittingly called the Stair Rover, Lai’s design incorporates unusual aluminum trucks that come out of the top of the deck, cantilevering outwards to support Y-shaped arms on either side that in turn each support two wheels.

What’s super cool is that Lai shows you, on his website, the various prototypes that led him to what would be the final design.

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