The art of taking photos of skateboarders is a rich tradition, full of sublime maneuvers and scenes of epic urban shredding. But it's not easy! Not any kid with a fisheye lens can make magazine-worthy images without some know-how. And if you can shoot an ollie well, you can shoot anything.
Electric skateboards are cool, in a dorky kind of way. We were impressed by the "Board of Awesomeness", which was controlled by a wave of your hands via a Kinect. But here's the future: a skateboard controlled by your brain.
Created by Chaotic Moon Labs, this follow-up to the Board of Awesomeness is referred to as the Board of Imagination, and it's controlled by the power of thought. The rider wears an Emotiv EPOC headset, which picks up signals from the brain and sends them to a Samsung tablet. As the rider imagines a point in the distance to which they'd like to travel, software detects changing brain signals, and the board starts rolling. At up to 32 mph.
