Those of you who have your eyes and ears aimed the right direction will be familiar with the PushN900 stuff that happened previously. I covered one of the showcases which involved pole dancing robots, Kryten from Red Dwarf and the winners of the PushN900 hack competition (not in that particular order, nor with any nsfw activities either). Two of the winners, were my favourite - the Solderin Skaters and Kaping With the N900 videos below show what has been achieved by those hacks. Very impressive stuff.
Both really awesome hacks showing what's capable and pushing the tech to it's full potential. This nicely brings us into the partnership between Nokia Push and Burton - the latter being the world's biggest snowboarding manufacturer. When I first saw this, immediately I saw some awesome possibilities. Using the great imaging capabilities of the Nokia N8 and it's surprisingly compact size, an idea had emerged in my head. I'll be submitting it to the PushN8 project.
PushBurton, will in the tradition of the Push project offer the community to submit hacks and ideas which can hopefully be turned into some really amazing hacks. At current they are looking for a rockstar developer who they'd like to join the team. If you are a developer and consider yourself to be a rockstar, you should head on over to this page and scream and shout about it.
If on the other hand you are not a developer but consider yourself to be a rockstar (even if you don't) and have an idea on using the N8 to create a really awesome hack, you should head over to this page and submit your idea.
Finally, there will be some goodies for YOU the readers to win. Keep your eyes peeled on the blog / feed for announcements very very soon.
UPDATE: Added video below with a brief on how Burton aim to push the boundaries, combining state of the art boards and mobile technology to create an awesome project where data is collected from the board and rider obtaining more information, which can be used in a varies amount of ways. The potential for this is staggering!
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