Signal Snowboards Honor Steve Jobs With the iShred

[MacRumors]

Every third Thursday, the guys at Signal Snowboards make a custom (and a little off-the-wall) board to push the limits of snowboard design. This month, the guys built iShred, an aluminum-based board with a built-in iPad 2 and a light-up wi-fi beacon.

The board turned out to be much more difficult to make than Signal had anticipated, but they got it done in the end -- though with the aluminum base, it wasn't the best board to actually ride:

The thing is like a missile -- it doesn't like to turn, but its pretty fast and heavy... it's like a lead weight. It's probably the heaviest board I've ridden. I give it a negative review on turnability.

Signal said they wanted to honor "the man who inspired and built products that almost every snowboarder we know loves and uses in their daily lives."

Article Link: Signal Snowboards Honor Steve Jobs With the iShred

 

[jasonxneo]

That snowboard is sooooo sick!!

 

[Fafafoooey]

Don't do the snow board or ski thing but...

That thing is really nice and what a way to honor SJ and Apple! Nice work!

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

i would buy one and i don't even snowboard

 

[spillproof]

Sick.

I showed this to my roommate who surfs and now he wants a surf board made.

 

[Snowcat001]

Love it!

 

[scott911]

babe magnet!

so cool -

and to those who didn't watch the whole thing beyond the credits - a girl admires the ipad at the top of a slope, and he asks if he can get her phone number for his ipad contact's page!

 

[h1r0ll3r]

Wonder if Burton will pick this up It'll probably be like $4,000 for the board.

 

[supercooled]

Sweet. Look rad on the slopes and get laid.

 

[andreiru]

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Good publicity

 

[hchung]

I don't mean to be a downer, as the board is kinda nifty. But doesn't this seem like the opposite of the kind of board Jobs would have appreciated?

The thing is like a missile -- it doesn't like to turn, but its pretty fast and heavy... it's like a lead weight. It's probably the heaviest board I've ridden. I give it a negative review on turnability.

Like, wouldn't he appreciate usability over features?

 

[tbrinkma]

I don't mean to be a downer, as the board is kinda nifty. But doesn't this seem like the opposite of the kind of board Jobs would have appreciated?



Like, wouldn't he appreciate usability over features?

It's not the sort of thing Jobs would have approved as a product, but it is almost certainly the sort of creative prototyping that he would have approved of. After all, if you never try something completely new, you'll never create something that nobody else has created yet.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

Cool, but that guy with the beards voice is like nails on a chalk board to me.

 

[smartalic34]

I don't mean to be a downer, as the board is kinda nifty. But doesn't this seem like the opposite of the kind of board Jobs would have appreciated?



Like, wouldn't he appreciate usability over features?

Steve Jobs = form over function

 

[chrono1081]

I LOVE this board!!!

Gosh I can't wait to snowboard. I need to move to Colorado or Whistler or someplace where good snow falls. Pennsylvania just isn't cutting it.

 

[scott911]

Steve Jobs = form over function

kind of true... no doubt he created and inspired great things, but ironically, I just got off a conference call with my iphone 4S.

I doubt sound (speaker and mic) is any better than my iphone 3G, maybe a touch better than my original. It should have grown leaps and bounds...

* but I did dig the snowboard guys. - cooler than me, dudes!

 

[iRCL]

That is AWESOME

 

[Seanozz]

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That is awesome and so
Makes me miss snowboarding.

 

[justperry]

Cool
Now can they build two iPhones 4S into ski"s.

Siri: Turn left.

Siri Replies: Can't do that, no internet connection.

Crash.

 

[RobQuads]

The lit logo is really cool but the bit with the iPad looks a bit naff IMO. When you look a the video the top sheet has been cut to allow you to see the ipad / control it but they have not even nicely smoothed the edges.

It looks very un-refined.

Would also have prefered to have it flush in the top sheet

 

[proboscisjoe]

never seen a board with aluminum on it?

"I don't even know if I've ever even seen a board with aluminum on it."

- http://aluflex.fr/snowboard/

I was buying longboard skateboards with wood sandwiched between two aluminum sheets, made using the same manufacturing process as their snowboards, back in 2005...

 

[vitzr]

Cool
Now can they build two iPhones 4S into ski"s.

Siri: Turn left.

Siri Replies: Can't do that, no internet connection.

Crash.

Simply hilarious.

 

[Bubba Satori]

i would buy one and i don't even snowboard

You can always take it into Starbucks.
Be rad and get laid.
Magic.

 

[davepilgrimus]

Man this board is so cool. Maybe I can get two iphone 4s retrofitted to my skis. One phone per ski for internet streaming.

It does make me sad thinking of Steve Jobs though. I miss that guy.

 

[DeepIn2U]

i would buy one and i don't even snowboard

Damn straight!

I'd like to see this donated to the Apple Hall of Fame in memory of Steve Jobs; no matter how much money somebody has and how much I'd want it, it deserves to be shared to all that visit Apple's main campus.