Mobile-Connected Snowboards Turn Extreme Sports Into A Game

Beginning in 2009, Nokia’s Push project has been working on a small scale to integrate sensors onto skateboards, collecting motion data about tricks and movements the skater is making while riding. Running on a platform built by Hyper London, this data is pushed wirelessly to a Nokia phone carried by the rider, where individual tricks are collected, analyzed, scored, and potentially tracked onto a game-like interface. Nokia is now working with Burton Snowboards to produce this platform on a larger scale to turn snowboarding sessions into connected games.

Nokia explains the project below:

Nokia Push will be collaborating with the world’s biggest snowboarding company, Burton Snowboards, to create a new type of connected snowboarding. Work has already started between Nokia and Burton, and the collaboration will be run in the spirit of the Push project – transparently, and openly in beta. Throughout this time, regular videos will be published here detailing our progress so far, and counting down to our alpha launch at next year’s Burton Euro Open in January.

Watch a video explanation of the project below:

Nokia Push Burton

Hyper London