Skateboards

Here’s a Drawing of a Guinea Pig on a Skateboard From 1899

I don’t know what to tell you. It is what it is. As always, the British Library’s flickr gallery of public domain images is a delight. There are over ten thousand pages of things to sift through. This is “Image taken from page 152 of ‘Lilliput Lyrics … Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. Illustrated by…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 26

What Are All Those Weird New Skateboards and Scooters You’re Seeing Everywhere?

The Renaissance. The Industrial Revolution. The Computer Age. Each era of history has produced its own remarkable inventions. What will history remember most clearly about our own epoch? Perhaps the many kooky ways we’ve invented to avoid walking to work. Yes, we’re living an exciting age for people challenging the conventions of traditional skateboards and…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 12

Hackers Can Hijack Electric Skateboards Now

At this point, it feels like everything that can be hacked, will be hacked: Computers, phones, industrial systems, cars, baby monitors, and now…electric skateboards. Security researchers Richo Healy and Mike Ryan developed an electric skateboard exploit they call, amusingly enough, FacePlant. The hack allows them to completely take control of a $1500 Boosted e-skateboard. They…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs Aug 7

A Cardboard Skateboard Is Surprisingly Durable

Signal Snowboards has a long history of making custom boards using unorthodox materials. But lately it’s been fixated on using cardboard, and after building both a rideable surfboard and snowboard, the company has now gone and built a surprisingly tough cardboard skateboard. But it’s not like they cut the side off a cardboard box, attached…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 30

These Spring-Loaded Skate Trucks Make Me Wish I Knew How To Skateboard

Skateboard suspension is an idea that sounds long overdue—modern skateboarding is a lot rougher than it was when my parents were young. Professional riders fly through the air, grind across metal rails and land on hard concrete after jumping down enormous flights of stairs. They do it all without suspension, forcing them to make hard,…

Tech News Sean Buckley Apr 25

A Skateboard Cutting Board Is Only Good For Carving Food, Not Streets

The only thing that could make these Skate Chop Boards a better addition to your kitchen would be a layer of grip tape on top to prevent fruit and vegetables from sliding all over the place while being chopped. But at just $18 in pink or blue that’s something you could easily add afterwards—even if…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 14

Video: The crazy story of hand making skateboards from trash

The frenetic editing of this video highlights the out of the box thinking that enabled Mac Premo and Sanford Shapes to create skateboards out of trash. It’s a fun story that resulted in them repurposing leftover plastic buckets into perfectly awesome skateboard decks. The materials all come from the dumpster. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 23

This Electric Skateboard Has Motors Inside Its Wheels

I’ve ridden more than a few electric skateboards in my time, but they all have the same problems: they all feel too electric and not enough skateboard. They’re often too thick to accommodate batteries and motors, and too heavy to push if the battery dies. Can’t we do better? Inboard Sports thinks so: it’s building…

Tech News Sean Buckley Mar 10

The process of making an entire skateboard looks like a lot of fun

Skateboarding is fun but George Powell of Powell Peralta skateboard makes building skateboards look even more fun. It’s always cool to see hands and machines and people transform wood into something completely different but especially neat to see how the whole skateboard—trucks and bearings and wheels—comes together. Stacy Peralta filmed this fun and upbeat documentary…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 3

Sculptures Built From Skateboards And Made Like Japan’s Buddha Statues

Japanese artist Haroshi combines his fascination with skateboarding with a traditional method of wooden mosaic common in Japan’s Buddha statues. He recycles old skateboards, cuts, shaves, and polishes them to form colorful three-dimensional sculptures. Skateboarder’s unity Big Apple Life with Pain Hammer Head Shark Agony into beauty Skate Rat Gary Cat Plant Possessed to Skate…

io9 Vincze Miklós Feb 19

Video: The dangerous life of being an ant in this human world

Being an ant is hard. Being an ant around humans is even harder. Being an ant around humans who are skating on a skateboard in a skateboard is pretty much impossible. This video uses CGI to imagine the struggle of an ant at the park and pretty much everything is either an obstacle or a…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 4

The New Boosted Boards Are Actually Affordable (and Still Badass)

A few months ago, our old friend Joel Johnson logged many miles on an incredibly awesome—and incredibly expensive—motorized longboard called a Boosted Board. Now, the company is announcing a whole new line of the miracle machines. And they’re actually pretty reasonably priced for a cutting-edge electric vehicle. Which is to say, $1,000 each—but the original…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 6

How pieces of wood turn into a skateboard

Chapman Skateboards shows the whole step-by-step process in how they make their boards and it’s such a cool process to see. You get to see how the wood pieces bond together into one piece, how the skateboard gets its shape and how it’s cut out from the block. I can watch this kind of thing…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 3

Skateboarder zips down mountains and flies by cars at insane speeds

He’s going down the mountain road so fast that it looks like he’s about to hit warp drive or something. I mean, damn. It seems like one little pebble on the road or one little shift in the wrong direction and he’d be catapulted off the side of the road. But he manages to hang…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 26

Skateboarding through 5000 balloons looks like a whole lot of fun

If you think about it, ball pits are gross cesspools that hide violent bits of static charges and virulent diseases that smell like melting plastic. They are not fun. But that’s because adults are not fun. For kids, there are few places better. This 5000 balloon pit is like a ball pit for kids, but…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 16

Skateboards With VHS Tape-Inspired Decks Let You Rewind a Few Decades

The thought that today’s kids will certainly have no concept of what VHS cassettes were is a little sad for those of us who grew up taping TV, rewinding movies, and messing with that mysterious tracking dial. But VHS cassette tapes will be far from forgotten as long as a few skateboarders embrace these retro-styled…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 10

Seeing skateboard tricks in slow motion is like breaking gravity

Slow down these skateboard tricks all you want and it’s still damn impressive how skateboarders can make a board twist and bend exactly how they want it. It’s like there are invisible strings attached to the board or a hole to exploit in gravity. But it’s just a beautiful ballet of footwork. SPLOID is a…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 4

We Rode a Backpack With an Electric Skateboard Inside

A few months ago we told you about Movpak, a backpack that’s totally unremarkable except for the fold-out electric skateboard hidden inside. Last week, we got to test-ride a prototype ahead of the company’s Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for production. Finally, a backpack that carries you. MovPak looks to solve the “last mile” problem;…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Sep 2

Star Wars and Skateboarding Were Meant To Be Together

To help commemorate a bunch of new Star Wars-themed products from skateboarding companies Vans and Santa Cruz, Black Book Gallery in Denver, Colorado, put on an exhibit of Star Wars-inspired art. And it included this AT-AT model, which artist Derek Keenan made from reclaimed skateboard decks. Would this piece look amazing on your desk at…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 10

There’s an Electric Skateboard For Commuters Hiding Inside this Backpack

Unless you work at a subway station or a bus stop, public transit can only get you most of the way to work. The remaining distance you have to cover by foot, or just hold off on actually getting a job until the Movpak—an electric-powered skateboard that folds up into a backpack—is available. With the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 27

Here’s a Drawing of a Guinea Pig on a Skateboard From 1899

What Are All Those Weird New Skateboards and Scooters You’re Seeing Everywhere?

Hackers Can Hijack Electric Skateboards Now

A Cardboard Skateboard Is Surprisingly Durable

These Spring-Loaded Skate Trucks Make Me Wish I Knew How To Skateboard

A Skateboard Cutting Board Is Only Good For Carving Food, Not Streets

Video: The crazy story of hand making skateboards from trash

This Electric Skateboard Has Motors Inside Its Wheels

The process of making an entire skateboard looks like a lot of fun

Sculptures Built From Skateboards And Made Like Japan’s Buddha Statues

Video: The dangerous life of being an ant in this human world

The New Boosted Boards Are Actually Affordable (and Still Badass)

How pieces of wood turn into a skateboard

Skateboarder zips down mountains and flies by cars at insane speeds

Skateboarding through 5000 balloons looks like a whole lot of fun

Skateboards With VHS Tape-Inspired Decks Let You Rewind a Few Decades

Seeing skateboard tricks in slow motion is like breaking gravity

We Rode a Backpack With an Electric Skateboard Inside

Star Wars and Skateboarding Were Meant To Be Together

There’s an Electric Skateboard For Commuters Hiding Inside this Backpack

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