by The Editors on January 21, 2011
In past years our policy has always been to roam the SIA Snow Show and see what catches our eyes or ears. While this create epic moments of serendipitous discovery it also means that we often miss some really cool shit.
This year we won’t have that problem because the SIA has created an iPhone app (and Blackberry and Android apps for those sad lonely, beaten down workers forced to use shoddy tools). It’s called SIA 2011 and was created by Core Apps.
Use the SIA Snow Show App to navigate the Show with interactive floor plans, exhibitor lists, twitter feeds, events schedules, listings for Denver bars and restaurants and create your own Show schedule.
The digital map is reason enough to download the app, but add to that a searchable exhibitor list (with booth numbers and full contact info), an events schedule (which has not been updated yet), Twitter feed, Denver Guide, and contact info for all the speakers at SIA and it is a mandatory piece of software for anyone attending the show. One of the coolest bits is that exhibitors in the list can be starred and or checked off the list and later viewed in an “exhibitors visited list.” Keeping track of who to see and who we’ve seen has never been easier.
After years of being at SIA adrift and unguided, the SIA Snow Show app comes like a light in the darkness. Click this link for the iPhone version. You other smartphone heathens are on your own.
For the latest on the 2011 SIA Show follow the jump.
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by The Editors on January 20, 2011
by The Editors on January 10, 2011
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]
by The Editors on January 3, 2011
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]
by The Editors on December 8, 2010
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]
by The Editors on December 7, 2010
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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by The Editors on December 3, 2010
by The Editors on November 18, 2010
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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by The Editors on November 17, 2010
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]
by The Editors on November 15, 2010
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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In past years our policy has always been to roam the SIA Snow Show and see what catches our eyes or ears. While this create epic moments of serendipitous discovery it also means that we often miss some really cool shit.
