Austin lab team rolls out Kinect-controlled skateboard
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 14:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Austin, Texas, team has developed an electric skateboard that makes use of Microsofts Kinect and a Samsung tablet running Windows 8 to go places on a piece of transport dubbed The Board of Awesomeness. Scheduled for showing at the CES show in Las Vegas, the board teams up with the Windows 8 Samsung tablet and Kinect controller. The smartened-up device has capabilities that include combined video and speech recognition location and accelerometer data.