Transportation
This Guy Invented a Cordless Drill-Powered Skateboard
Use a simple Black & Decker to scoot along for miles—or install drywall, your choice.
For years, Tony Ward has pursued an unusual dream. It involves a skateboard, a cordless drill, and a revolutionary form of transportation.
Revolutionary, but also totally ridiculous. Ward is the inventor of the KRANX Powerstik, a conversion kit that propels a skateboard on the power of a Black & Decker (or swap in your favorite brand). This isn’t just a funny little side project for him, either. Ward’s been scooting around his Vancouver-area ‘hood so much on this thing a newspaper actually reported “you’ve likely seen a curious [sight] in the last couple years—a man bombing around local roads on a skateboard using a cordless drill as a motor.”