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Kinect-controlled motorized skateboard

2012-01-17
hey everybody Hollywood from Cena here i'm here with worley from chaotic moon studios who is here with okay I'm just gonna say it the coolest device I have seen so far as esq can you tell us what is about to be the death of me here well sure what we're going to do is we're going to put you on chaotic moon labs board of awesomeness it's a electronic skateboard it's at 36 volt motor it's 800 watt system it goes 32 miles an hour top speed and it's all controlled with a samsung windows 8 tablet using Microsoft Kinect so you're going to use your gestures we're gonna have you do today is use a gesture like a throttle and we're gonna have you drive right across this little section of the showroom floor and that's the part where I got all right so what you're not gonna die so but what I don't wanna die I'm a very good skateboarder or at least I was 15 years ago what is the what's the what's this product for what are you hoping to come so we're with chaotic moon labs which is a division of Catalan studios and what we do is we do three types of computing predictive pervasive and perceptive and we do a why in a while so this is our why project for some technology we've been developing its everybody's attention has them go like why would you build that that's weird and then in a few weeks we'll release the WoW product which is where everybody will be like oh that's why you build that and you're clearly not gonna tell us what the while product is not on camera but after i'll be happy to tell you alright so we'll keep an eye out for that in the meantime we're gonna try this out although you said you do have plans to sort of open we're gonna open sort we're gonna all up everything there is no connect hacking involved everything using the standard sdk everything's just stock so we are going to open source the software in the plan so that anybody wants to build their own can build their own and then they can die I'm kidding they're not gonna die this is gonna be alright let's give it a try because let's do it let's go this little plate here the dead woman´s which is the connector that's going to power up the board the white box that you can see on the screen there that's actually the kinect sensor so if you've played kinect before you can see your hand goes into that space and that means you're about to make it happen all right you ready she'll give it a try haven't helped me more okay so I'm putting my hand here I put I here okay I'm a genius okay i love this i need to have it mr. doesn't watch on the board and our producer says i have to get down ma'am thank you all right that's it it is the magic skateboard of awesome word of also the board of awesomeness i can't i can't dispute that at all Worley thanks a lot so that was basically the highlight of the show awesome good luck we look forward to seeing the Wow product you're getting sure you get it pristina com still alive I'm Hollywood
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