SoulArc Skateboard
I decided to skip the usual car prototype for today and explore some other vehicles. Don’t know if you can call this a vehicle, but at least it has a unique design. Here’s the SoulArc skateboard that is supposed to reinvent the way we ride such things.
The designers say that they really wanted to make this skateboard feel like a surfboard carried by waves. In order to achieve this, they placed a huge leaf-spring between its long deck and the wheels. According to Gizmodo, when you dig your heel in the board, the spring relaxes into corners, giving you more of a surfing-through-waves feeling. Check out the short presentation clip made by the designers:
| New type of skateboard |
We can see in the clip that the skateboard is more flexible and allows you to ride it in rougher than usual places. SoulArc was designed by college students Mitch Mulder and Salvatore Vilardi, and the guys have managed to obtain a commercial patent so we can actually buy this thing. The skateboard was already demoed at the Action Sports Retail show in San Diego, and the official release is expected in a couple of weeks but the two students didn’t mention any price point.
