At CES, Chaotic Moon showed off their appropriately named Board of Awesomeness. It’s the result of hooking up a skateboard, a Kinect and a Samsung tablet to control the board’s speed through hand motions.
It’s an excellent example of the kind of unexpected, quirky, wonderfully playful bottom up innovation you only get when you open up technology for experimentation.
There’s a good write-up over at WIRED.
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