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Skateboarding...with your mind!

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    Tech Take: Clayton Morris tests out innovative mind-controlled skateboarding from Chaotic Moon

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I am here with -- who created it.

Eight skateboard.

That you control.

With your mind in my right about you can -- -- with your imagination.

So basically you imagine where you wanna go and you see that distance point.

And you think about the -- you wanna go and that's that converts your brain waves into demands they cancel the electrical loads of motor on this board.

This is the actual board here it's got a tablet running it actually.

Rain interface -- and actually -- different brains Green notes on there that is correct stand on here getting -- marriage -- and off fight go.

-- we often say -- -- but it's seriously concerned that this which allows a writer to activate all of electronics on the board that would that get in trouble.

They let -- that everything dies it was a 150 pounds as a top speed of 32 miles an hour so it's really important that it not go -- -- by itself.

So do you have confidence that I can skateboard just visually think that I can do it and I can move I believe in you.

We let -- let about twenty or thirty people -- some -- out by it so I'm very confident that.

Nice to be something of a skated back in my time let's give it.

-- -- Okay.

You -- almost meditating.

Because your subconsciously Charlie the other they have you'll see this little everybody does even president high negative -- going kind of -- like.

Danger dominate the.

Our question why.

Why what I -- control -- -- of my mind.

That's a fantastic question what we're really doing is you're doing a project every month this year.

To show that innovation is not dead a lot of people think innovation is dead in the US they don't understand I don't believe -- all -- -- all the great ideas are coming out.

They don't know that invention and innovation are very different innovations not taking things that -- exists and putting together -- new and existing ways in this case.

A skateboard and a mind -- device and a tablet right.

So we're trying to do project a month to -- -- innovation is -- that you have to think about it a little different there's so many solutions so many problems if people -- just kind of put it a little more thought into them and other you know that's outsider candidates.