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by Robert Quigley | 8:55 am, August 13th
Industrial designer Bryson Lovett dreamt up this concept for an electric-powered, tank-treaded skateboard called the Vertrax.
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by Robert Quigley | 3:10 pm, July 8th
California Skateparks chief Joe Ciaglia is the owner of what he touts as the “world’s largest skateboard.” Recently, he took it for a spin at Pennsylvania’s Camp Woodward: After letting ten or so other people ride it at the same time, he decided to take it for a spin himself. When he bailed, he nearly got flattened by the massive thing, and managed to destroy a small mountain of dirt.
Observe:
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by Geekosystem Staff | 12:50 pm, June 28th
Five months ago, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would be releasing a “magical” device called the iPad. While it received decidedly mixed first impressions from the tech press at the time, Apple has had the last laugh, with 3 million iPads sold in its first 80 days. Love it or hate it, the iPad is here to stay — as are gimmicky, viral video- and photo-ready uses for it.
During these first five months, there have been creative, bizarre, and bizarrely creative uses for the iPad aplenty, propelled by an Internet that can’t seem to get enough of them. We’ve taken it upon ourselves to catalog them all in one place for posterity’s sake:
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by Robert Quigley | 9:52 am, May 5th
The iPad blends, works as a turntable, and makes a dandy kitchen cabinet decoration. Got it. The more iPad viral videos and viral video pretenders there are, the more we demand from the next one. Fortunately, Fuel TV’s Built to Shred delivers: Pro skater Chad Knight and host Jeff King drill, mount, and otherwise generally destroy an iPad to make it a suitable mini-skateboard, and then, after that, turn it into what may be the worst $500 ramp extension ever.
Finally! Something you can do on the iPad that you can’t do on the iPod Touch!
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