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Retric 

  Run at 25 MPH  (check)
  Jump over cars. (check)
  Cheap @ USD$269 (check)
  Looks like you are doing something hard (check)
Just add a motor for the lazy and assisted balancing system and I think we have a winner.
TrevorJ
I wonder if you could use some kind of gyro system on your torso to provide front-to back stability?

Hmm....

sophacles
Woah! My birthday is at the end of august, and for the first time ever I know what I want and it's only July.
TrevorJ
I want to get these, however I can't get over the feeling that you'd be seconds away from snapping a leg at any given moment. Hmm.
clistctrl
looks like a good way to get to work
johnyzee
Everything about it is cool, but you still look like a huge dork running on it. (Except, possibly, if you are doing back flips or jumping a car).