Watch: This “look-alike” laptop is an electric hoverboard you can ride

A hoverboard looks really cool but where are you going to park that thing when you reach your destination? Every hoverboard owner has probably had this thought. Now, a company called Cocoa Motors may have just solved this problem with the WalkCar: A segway that’s so tiny, it can fit inside a laptop bag.

After about a year of refining the product, lead creator Kuniaki Saito and his team at Cocoa Motors are finally making the hoverboard available for pre-order starting October 21.

The device is designed to fit inside a 13-inch laptop bag. However, instead of the computing power of Windows or a Mac computer, users will get a 6.6-pound four-wheeler that can support up to 265 pounds or 120kgs which is well over the average weight of a fully grown human being. The company also claims that the hoverboard can give about 7.5 miles (or about 12-kilometres) at a top speed of about 10 miles per hour with three hours of charging. Navigation on the WalkCar is as simple as shifting your body weight to turn in the desired direction: Lean left to turn left or lean right to turn right. If a user wants to stop while riding this tiny contraption, simply step down from the device.

Like other hoverboards, the WalkCar is electric powered and are much smaller than cars and bikes, meaning that it could potentially be the answer to all commuting problems. Apart from that, there would be a lot of extra space on roads if everyone were to use one of these things.

The WalkCar cost $1,280 to pre-order. Although, customers will have to wait till September of  2017 till they get their hands on it.