Category — technology

Well the skateboard isn’t made of “OSB” but it sort of looks like it.

Vehicle Skateboards is working with Pop Master Innovations to bring you a skateboard made from recycled wood fiber veneer substrate and recycled skateboard decks.
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Is Microsoft saying you can use your own gear as a controller for “Ride” or other skateboard games?

For more info check out Engadget’s “Project Natal” coverage

Yeah, that’s right Tim Payne and crew are creating skateable art out of concrete. Not only do these pieces of art look cool and modern they also skate good (+1).

What TeamPain is doing here is building skateable terrain that is also art. So if your town is building a skatepark and/or skate plaza this might be something to check out.

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It’s a skateboard with a shoe sole for grip tape. Concept/Creation from French designer John Nouanesing.

Wonder if this works?

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 I know this is a skateboard blog but the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II just might change the way photogs and filmers document skateboarding.  Not only is this a 21 megapixel still camera but it’s also an HD (1080p) video camera. Check out a sample movie created with this camera after the jump.  Canon will sell the body-only for $2,699 or bundled with Canon’s 24-105mm f/4L IS USM zoom lens for $3,499

Normally any video capability on a still camera is just an afterthought and the quality of the video is only good enough for youtube.  This seems to be different.

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 This is some pretty amazing slow-mo footage of random dudes skating steps at 120 frames per second–compare that to a normal SD/HD camera at just shy of 30 fps. They are being filmed with a “Red One” HD camera. It’s a cheap (relatively speaking) pro HD camera.  Just the camera body retails for around $17.5K. The price will go up once you add lenses and accessories. Yeah, that’s cheap considering other pro HD cameras at 5 to 10 times that price.

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The folks over at Illusion Labs are touting this as the first tru multi-touch game for the iPhone.

From the looks of all the screen shots there’s no person skating. Why is that? Because it’s a “finger board” game (check the video after the jump) –pretty cool if you ask me. If I owned an iPhone I would probably get this when it becomes available in the iPhone App Store in October.

From their site:

 Yes, it’s official! Illusion Labs brings you the world’s first true multi-touch game for the iPhone. The board is controlled by using finger gestures similar to the legs and feet of a real skater.

The dynamic and innovative controls together with the game being built on a high quality physics engine gives the players a high degree of freedom to come up with their own tricks.

Following our Game 2.0 philosophy the games comes with an online level editor open to the community to create and publish their own skateparks.

Touchgrind will be available in the iPhone App Store in October.

More screen shots and and a video after the jump

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