Coming down the path, Brantley Topham looks tall enough to be a new shooting guard for the Utah Jazz — until it becomes clear he’s standing on something.
That something, which looks like the skateboard version of a platform shoe, is Topham’s invention, the Gigboarder, which the 22-year-old Utahn hopes will create “a new culture of bringing music and skating together.”
The Gigboarder is a skateboard with a hidden compartment within the deck — big enough to carry a ukulele, or a change of clothes or a college student’s books. “It’s a backpack on wheels, I guess,” Topham said, though he prefers the term “skate utility vehicle.