I want to love these - Shift Moonwalkers

Ever think about how walking is cool but it takes soooo long to get anywhere? Shift is here with their new Moonwalker... shoes? Well, I guess it's kind of an EV? I don't know. Anyways, we got James to strap them to his feet and risk his life to see if these could be the next Segway.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 I'm walkin' 'ere
0:28 Design impressions
1:05 Trying them on
1:54 Ports/Buttons and more thoughts on design
2:59 Trying them for the first time
4:07 Sponsor - Secret Lab
4:32 Using them in the office
6:09 Thoughts on speed and trying slopes
7:11 When/where can you where these?
10:29 Pricing and overall thoughts
11:36 Outro

[JeffJK]

Imagine how fast you'll fly using these on those airport escalator/walkways.

[theisaacpigg_]

It makes you look like a video game character walking when the speed is slightly higher than the animation it goes with so they slide at the same time

[microbuilder]

Back in the 90s, I asked my parents if I could cut holes in the soles of my shoes to put wheels in them. They said no, of course. A few years later, shoes started coming out with wheels in them and they sold like hotcakes.

I like to occasionally remind them that we couldve been millionaires lol

[frykauf]

Honestly I just want Linus to use them for a week for a video.

[ljessecusterl]

Jake's and Riley's reactions are precisely what I expected from them.

[Perceivedshift]

If they could last all day I could see some companies picking them up, especially for warehouse workers and such. But the 6-7 miles of range is very limiting for most of these use-cases. Make them smaller and sleeker...and throw a big swap capable battery in a backpack and you might have a winner.

[Das_Unterstrich]

For workers in an airport, warehouses or just multi-complex buildings (like a big hospital as some form of "delivery person"), I can actually see those things making sense. I know companies that legitimately just have bicycles for workers to get from point A to point B, and when you factor in things like stairs, elevators or just long office buildings those things may actually be useful.

[GrahamPlays]

Linus as a transformer line cracked me up.

[davidfernelz]

Seems like roller blades with more work

[JesseArt]

"If Linus were a transformer...this is his final form." Dude, I so dead LOL.

[TroublingStatue]

That price man, god DAMN. I thought they were gonna be around $250, maybe even $350, but $1400?

Insanity.

[Uufda]

The way you describe the pros and cons I feel like these are made for NYC. All the streets are stop and go traffic, so people walk and subway everywhere, COL means that no matter how rih you are that isn't changing, so these shoes might be genuinely useful for some upper management commuter. And honestly NYC is so full of weird stuff that nothing is weird.

[nankinink]

When James talked about using those in CES or a giant mall, I remembered that people use rollerblades in some huge supermarkets and they are skilled as heck. It's so much better, although there's a bit of learn curve

[ghomerhust]

ive seen several videos of these, they are a fantastic concept. i hope they do make it at least as mainstream as something like rollerblades. extremely cool

[zbiggie]

"If Linus was a transformer, this is his final form"

Couldn't say it better.

[rfldss]

Some supermarkets already have part of their staff moving around on roller skates, a lot of warehouses are so big employees drive around on bikes. I dont know if the moonwalkers would be a good replacement, but those would probably be the environments where they shine through the most.

[Neoxon]

For a second I thought these would be skates that you can add to any pair of shoes, but this is way more fun.

[nagi]

11:25 big box stores had some employees in in-line skates here about 10-15 years ago, these could re-add that kind of fast-deployment groups.

[Lizlodude]

"Walk for 45 minutes, dog go farther" is a quote for the ages.

[RonnieDeuce]

I can only imagine other people in the business park looking outside and thinking "Yep those LMG guys are doing weird stuff again."