Dave Lee, Marc Wierenga and the crew at Signal Snowboards took a Skullcandy Superpipe and built it into a boombox snowboard as part of their Every Third Thursday project. We can hardly wait until all the kids are rocking these turned up to 11. . .
[Link: Signal Snowboards]
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The Nixon Trooper headphone recently won a Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. The headhone was designed by Yves Béhar, Josh Morenstein, Pichaya Puttorngul, Serge Beaulieu, and Giuseppe Della Sala at fuseproject, in San Francisco.
The Good Design Awards are pretty OG. Here is the history:
Founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., GOOD DESIGN bestows international recognition upon the world’s most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.
Sounds pretty good.
[Link: Nixonnow.com]
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SlickWraps, the purveyors of fine iPhone skins, have a new skin that turns an iPhone 4 into a nice 7-ply maple board–sort of.
We use real skateboard grip-tape to manufacture each item and each is precision cut with a laser for a perfect fit. When combined with a wood grain vinyl edge wrap this design actually gives your iPhone 4 the illusion of being a skateboard, all you need now are the wheels. The only advice we can give you is not to slide this phone against your grandma’s table because this material is very rough.
Finally, an iPhone that can do damage, rather than the other way around. Right now, it’s only $20 on Etsy.com.
[Link: SlickWraps via TheNextWeb]
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Activision would like to remind everyone that even though Tony Hawk Shred had a less than stellar first week on the shelves that it’s a little early to “close the book on Tony Hawk Shred,” according to CEO Eric Hirshberg, quoted on Computer And Video Games, because they are marketing the game for holiday gift giving and we’re done with that yet.
“The one question that I can answer, and remarkably so, is that Tony Hawk does really still have relevance and tremendous appeal for people,” Hirshberg added. “He is a lasting icon. He has that Michael Jordan-ish or Jordan-esque staying power, seemingly.”
In spite of the gaming press jumping on the video skateboarding is dead bandwagon, we still like him. So please, buy a game and keep Tony’s video party rolling.
[Link: Computer And Video Games]
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Surfline has upgraded their iPhone offering with an all-new Surfline app which gives users global access to the Surfline HD cam network as well as all their other surf forecasting goodness.
Surfline’s all-new iPhone® app is the only mobile surfing app available with surf cams at over 150 of the best surf breaks in the US and Hawaii and LIVE streaming HD cams available at over 90 breaks for premium members. Surfline’s app provides the great useful tools and data that have made Surfline a trusted forecaster for surfers around the world.
We let our account expire so we can’t test how good the HD cams look on the phone, but if you have a subscription (and an iPhone) download the free app and let us know how it works. Follow the jump for the official release.
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After 18 months in the making Skullcandy kicked off the launch of their new Mix Master Mike Headphone with a party at the expansive My House, on the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and N. La Brea in the heart of Hollywood, California last night (December 2, 2010).
This is just a little of the amazing set Mix Master Mike kicked down to the packed house. Follow the jump for some photos.
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According to our logs several Boardistan.com visitors each day use Apple’s magical and revolutionary iPad device. And to reward them we have created the “Our iBallz Your iPad” contest. iBallz are an ingeniously simple way to protect an iPad (or other tablet device) from damage due to drops, spills, and/or the hazards of daily digital life. They also work great as a stand to prop an iPad up at the perfect angle for doing work.
While we may have been the first action sports company to announce content compatibility with the new device, we still don’t have iPads incorporated into our current Boardistan workflow. That’s why we created a contest especially for those techno trailblazers who do. The rules are simple. Send us a photo of an iPad with the Boardistan.com site up and on screen and if we choose it as the winner we’ll send you a set of iBallz.
The photos can be compelling, ridiculous, outrageous, shocking, silly, or stupid, the only requirements are that the photo features an iPad with Boardistan.com up on the screen. The rest is up to you. Simply click here to email the photo.
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In spite of Tony Hawk’s recent media blitz (including the high-profile Stand Up For Skateparks events and book launch) his new Tony Hawk Shred video game had a pretty dismal first week on sale, according to a story on GamesIndustry.biz.
The most recent multiformat Tony Hawk title from Activision has had a disastrous launch in the US, selling only 3000 units in its first week in October.
GameFocus.ca is already calling it a “commercial failure.” But we wouldn’t know because we (like most in the media) have not even played the new game.
[Link: GamesIndustry.biz and GameFocus.ca]
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Tech snowboarders who have always felt bad about having an iPod cover that didn’t match their jacket can rest easy now thanks to a collab between Burton Snowboards and iPod case maker Speck (our current case of choice). The new cases are custom wrapped with fabric from Burtons 2011 outerwear collection.
“So many of the Burton crew use Apple products, so it’s been really cool to work with Speck on an Apple accessory,” stated Greg Dacyshyn, Chief Creative Officer, Burton Snowboards. “Both Burton and Apple are all about innovation, and we can’t wait to see our outerwear textures and prints popping up on these cases this holiday season.”
So much for finding your iPhone once you’ve thrown it on your jacket. Fitted x Burton cases are available in True Black Buffalo Print, Lumber Print, and Toile Print for a MSRP of $39.95 at the Speck or Apple Stores. Follow the jump for more product photos.
[Editors’ Note: Sadly, as we recently discovered, Speck is not making any of these cases for the iPhone 4. In fact, they only make them for the iPod touch. Which kind of negates this entire post. We apologize for not having collected our information more carefully.]
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Ever been in the snowed in parking lot of your favorite resort and not known which goggle lens is right for you? No? Us neither. But for those sad, ignorant masses who have so many lenses that they’re never really sure which to use, anon has the perfect app. It’s the Lens Visualizer.”
The standout feature of the new anon App is the industry’s first-ever live-view ‘Lens Visualizer’ tool that lets riders virtually test which anon lens is best at any given location in a matter of seconds. . . Here’s how anon’s exclusive virtual tool works: Once a rider selects the anon Lens Visualizer, their iPhone will use the camera lens as a view finder to capture their actual surroundings. Then, riders can point the phone at whatever they want (say the base lodge or the mountain) and see how it would look under six different anon lens tints. The tool allows riders to swipe from the darkest to lightest lens tint so they can see which color lens they prefer for the day’s conditions.
Tool, being the keyword here. If only they had a visualizer that could show us which pair of stinking, rotted socks had the fewest days on ’em. That would be something truly useful.
[Link: anon Lens Visualizer]
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