Adam Balkin takes a closer looker at the Modobag and shows you how well the suitcase that doubles as a scooter really works.
Since the dawn of human travel, we have been carting our suitcases around behind us everywhere we go. Isn’t it about time our suitcases start carting us around? The Modobag is a carryon that converts into a scooter that carries you on it.
“You can ride it about eight miles,” says Boyd Bruner of Modobag. “It carries about 85 percent of your capacity on the inside of a normal carry-on bag. It’s TSA, FAA, IETA legal so you can take it on a flight no problem, batteries are safer than normal cell phone battery - fits in the overhead compartment of the plane or you can just ride it if you want to skip a taxi on the way to wherever you’re going. It has two speeds so has an indoor speed that’s about five miles per hour and an outdoor speed that’s around eight."
And as if being able to ride your suitcase isn’t enough, that is not the only high tech feature of the Modobag.
“We’ve got a GPS app so you can track it,” Bruner says. “Like if you did check it, which you can, you would know if it’s on the plane or not. You’d know where it’s at at all times. You can also make a little fence around your location and it can call you if it moves when you’re not aware."
The Modobag is available for pre-order on the Indiegogo crowdfunding site for around a thousand dollars. The first 200 will ship around the holidays, then they’ll hit stores at the beginning of the new year. The post-pre-order price will jump to around $1,500.