Tag: SKATEBOARDING

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. This ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Game designer Zack Hiwiller reimagines the original 'Super Mario Bros.' as if it had been designed in social-network-happy year of 2010. [From: Zack Hiwiller] ...

(Wait, this isn't an April Fool's joke? Okay, then... ) Skating, perhaps the last true haven for loner, angst-ridden teenagers, is apparently engaged in an epochal battle with white collar (i.e.lab coat) conformity. If defeated, millions of rebellious cool-guy misfits could be left with no tangible way to demonstrate their painful awesomeness to an uncaring world. According to Crunch Gear, ...

As every skater knows, you acquire quite a number of skateboards in a lifetime. But what exactly becomes of all those old and unusable decks that pile up around your place? Well, one Japanese artist has found a unique (and geeky) way to recycle them into art. According to Kotaku, artist Haroshi just unleashed his newest project called "Harvest," which is a series of artwork that uses broken ...

At last night's G-Shock "Shock the World" event, we caught up with pro skateboarder and soon-to-be watch-designer Stevie Williams to ask about his gadgets du jour. The event was packed with watch aficionados, Williams among them (as a G-Shock ambassador who is anticipating his own watch design). Last night also saw the debut of tattoo artist Mr. Cartoon's clown-emblazoned timepiece, of course, but ...