“Board of Awesomeness” Tops 30 MPH with a Wave of Your Hands

Until the scientific community get off its collective plum duff and starts researching the important and poorly infer theater ofHoverboardtechnology , we ’ll just have to soothe ourselves with the Kinect - overtop , electric - powered , and Windows 8 - controlled Board of Awesomeness from Chaotic Moon .

The Board of Awesomeness ( BoA ) , employs an as - of - yet unreleased Window ’s 8 pad of paper in conjunction with a Kinect control bar to repulse an 800 watt electric skateboard using a 36 volt power supplying . rider assure the hurrying — either dense , average , and fast — through a combination of articulation commands and hand motion , with a maximum speed of 32MPH . Push your hands forward and the board speed , get out them back and the board cruises to a halt . guiding changes look to be control the old - fashioned way — by leaning back and forth .

I ’d love to take one of these for a whirl despite being terrify of putting my foot through a tablet screen after attain one of San Francisco ’s many chuckhole . [ Chaotic Moon – Slashgear ]