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Fight the powerless

You’ve trawled all the mildly useful load shedding tech lists on the web, but something’s missing. You want complete lunacy over utility – so we listed the best blackout time wasters.

EVOLVE GTR CARBON ELECTRIC LONGBOARD

 from R30 000 /evolveskateboardsa.co.za

If you read Stuff regularly, you’ll remember the Evolve GTR Carbon Electric Longboard we reviewed earlier this year.

If you’re around Joburg, you would’ve seen us zooming around the Botanical Gardens like the pretentious idiots we are. And you know what? It was a helluva time waster when our homes suddenly lost access to Eskom’s juice. To fill you in on what the Evolve Carbon GTR is, think of a longboard: A thin piece of reinforced wood dangling precariously between four thick wheels. Now replace the plank (known as the deck) with a 14AH Samsung lithium-ion battery, the wheels with 7in pneumatic all-terrain tyres and strap dual 1 500W high-performance custom-made

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