| What if I told you that the Online Think Tank is | | | | IM. (already have surfboards with wifi, cell phones) |
| looking for smart folks, engineers, designers and | | | | 3.) Holographic Image display project in front of the |
| skateboarders to help us radically improve the | | | | board so the rider can match it while flying thru the |
| skateboard of the future? A skateboard, which was | | | | air to insure a perfect maneuver? |
| fully integrated with the latest technologies and one | | | | 4.) All run by LED lights which are charging as each |
| which could fly; a hover board like in Back to the | | | | bump in the side walk jars tiny components, like a |
| Future II. Well that is exactly what we plan to do | | | | shake-able flash light. |
| and we are working on the beginning stages of the | | | | 5.) We can make the board invisible using MITs new |
| research report right now. | | | | light bending stuff? Change colors? |
| Yes let's build a net-centric Skateboard with active | | | | 6.) Use Mind Control to send commands to the |
| RFID chips, it can dodge obstacles or incoming | | | | hoverboard via (individual mind-mapping fMRI |
| objects and also be fixed with the latest lidar, radar, | | | | sequence generator). |
| stereo sonar and optical flow sensors. Let's make all | | | | 7.) The Hover Board/Skate Board/ Wave Rider could |
| the components fully integrated with the skatepark | | | | be used in any gravity displacement too. Earth, Mars, |
| and/or a Video Game, Virtual Reality C.A.V.E. or | | | | Moon. "The Lunar Board" or something? Matching |
| system or even a full on simulator. | | | | agility to human ability, the next step in the evolution |
| We should make these tricky boards to the kids and | | | | of fun! |
| let them have fun? Have them test them out and | | | | 8.) Interactive Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality |
| then make them even better. I think I really enjoyed | | | | living room video game with skateboard, no worries |
| the movie "Back to the Future" with Michael J. Fox | | | | when weather is bad. |
| and Biff and perhaps you did too. And the | | | | 9.) Couple it with eLearning initiatives; make it fun to |
| skateboards have been a fascination ever sense, of | | | | learn while riding a skateboard. Learn physics while |
| course all young boys of my age grew up with the | | | | skateboarding, it's all physics anyway. |
| first skateboards. Catamaran'ing down steep streets, | | | | 10.) Interactive skate parks and indoor recreational |
| doing switch back maneuvers and it was simply part | | | | facilities of the future. |
| of being growing up. | | | | All this technology already exists NOW and it is only a |
| In the first committee meeting for the report our | | | | matter of cost, weight and size. Remember Moore's |
| team identified several potential emerging | | | | law for electronics. We are seeing this now with |
| technologies that should be integrated into the | | | | UAVs to MAVs to the size of insects. It is all doable |
| hoverboard; | | | | only a matter of imagination and will, funding and ROI. |
| 1.) How about a set of tap push button controls to | | | | Actually, it's all almost here the way I see it. And so |
| put up the landing gear, make it a hover board? 3 in | | | | the journey begins; the skateboard of the future will |
| the green and away they go hover board style? | | | | fly, and it will fly like nothing else. |
| 2.) Voice Activated WiFi, iPod, VoIP, cell phone and | | | | |