Young Skateboarding Entrepreneur Promotes Green Transportation Device, Introduces the "Stowboard"
USC graduate student acquires and begins marketing a unique, folding skateboard contraption. He hopes that it will revolutionalize "green" transportation.
Venice Beach, CA, January 08, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Artists and street performers in this West Los Angeles city have been turning people’s heads for decades. But when skateboard entrepreneur Jason Pong leaves his Venice office and glides through the waterfront crowds, the attention he draws has nothing to do with art and everything to do with technology.
The product Pong rides (almost everywhere he goes, by his own account) is called a Stowboard, and it is a personal transportation device like no other. It looks like a cross between a skateboard, an adult-type push scooter, and a miniaturized Lunar Excursion Vehicle. One avid Stowboard rider described it as “sort of transformer-eque.”
“You can’t ride a Stowboard anywhere without somebody stopping to ask what it is,” said Pong, who owns the exclusive rights to distribute the product—and who takes the green transportation cause seriously indeed. “The easy answer is ‘foldable skateboard,’ but the Stowboard is really a lot more. I usually end up telling them it’s the most practical green transportation device one can own.”
Anyone who visits http://www.stowboard.net will quickly understand why the Stowboard draws attention. Stowboards are to skateboards what Buggattis are to cars. It has big, polyurethane-spoked wheels in the front, small “carving” wheels in the back, and a separate deck for each foot. It is 31 inches long when road-ready and folds up to an easily packable 11 inches when not in use.
“Kids stash it in their lockers or book packs,” said University of Southern California graduate student Pong, who uses his Stowboard to navigate USC’s sprawling campus quickly and efficiently. “Travelers take it on the plane with them, and some people even keep one in their cars so they can park in far away spots. One Stowboarder told me he takes it along on business trips to avoid paying for a rental car. I have silently Stowboarded through airport terminals all over the world.”
What’s it like to ride a Stowboard? Pong’s three favorite adverbs are fun, fast and smooth. “The feel is sort of like a longboard, but its low center of gravity, big front wheels and special rear carving wheels make it smoother, quieter and easier to ride.”
The Foldable Skateboard (US Patent #7150461) was invented about five years ago by a Southern California designer and an engineer—but a minor design flaw and a less-than-vigorous marketing campaign led to the original model’s near demise.
Pong, a bioengineering expert, entrepreneur, and early Stowboard devotee solved the design problem, acquired the now-corrected inventory, and recently began marketing Stowboards on the Web. Plans are in the works for a new website, a spirited public relations campaign, and a second generation human powered take-everywehere transportation device to join the Stowboard as the only board you can truly take everywhere.
To arrange an interview with Mr. Pong, please contact marketing partner Jonathan Franks at 800-398-1546 or email jon@wsipreciseweb.com.
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The product Pong rides (almost everywhere he goes, by his own account) is called a Stowboard, and it is a personal transportation device like no other. It looks like a cross between a skateboard, an adult-type push scooter, and a miniaturized Lunar Excursion Vehicle. One avid Stowboard rider described it as “sort of transformer-eque.”
“You can’t ride a Stowboard anywhere without somebody stopping to ask what it is,” said Pong, who owns the exclusive rights to distribute the product—and who takes the green transportation cause seriously indeed. “The easy answer is ‘foldable skateboard,’ but the Stowboard is really a lot more. I usually end up telling them it’s the most practical green transportation device one can own.”
Anyone who visits http://www.stowboard.net will quickly understand why the Stowboard draws attention. Stowboards are to skateboards what Buggattis are to cars. It has big, polyurethane-spoked wheels in the front, small “carving” wheels in the back, and a separate deck for each foot. It is 31 inches long when road-ready and folds up to an easily packable 11 inches when not in use.
“Kids stash it in their lockers or book packs,” said University of Southern California graduate student Pong, who uses his Stowboard to navigate USC’s sprawling campus quickly and efficiently. “Travelers take it on the plane with them, and some people even keep one in their cars so they can park in far away spots. One Stowboarder told me he takes it along on business trips to avoid paying for a rental car. I have silently Stowboarded through airport terminals all over the world.”
What’s it like to ride a Stowboard? Pong’s three favorite adverbs are fun, fast and smooth. “The feel is sort of like a longboard, but its low center of gravity, big front wheels and special rear carving wheels make it smoother, quieter and easier to ride.”
The Foldable Skateboard (US Patent #7150461) was invented about five years ago by a Southern California designer and an engineer—but a minor design flaw and a less-than-vigorous marketing campaign led to the original model’s near demise.
Pong, a bioengineering expert, entrepreneur, and early Stowboard devotee solved the design problem, acquired the now-corrected inventory, and recently began marketing Stowboards on the Web. Plans are in the works for a new website, a spirited public relations campaign, and a second generation human powered take-everywehere transportation device to join the Stowboard as the only board you can truly take everywhere.
To arrange an interview with Mr. Pong, please contact marketing partner Jonathan Franks at 800-398-1546 or email jon@wsipreciseweb.com.
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