Don't Wipe Out on This Kinect-Controlled Longboard [VIDEO]

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This week at CES, Chaotic Moon Labs showed off its "Board of Awesomeness" -- a longboard powered by a Windows 8 tablet and controlled by a hacked Kinect. Every movement is completely controlled by the rider's gestures.

"So how does it work?" Chaotic Moon's website asks. "Video recognition, speech recognition, location data, accelerometer data, and other factors determine what the user wants to do and allow the board to follow the operator’s commands without other aid."

Check out the video above to see this toy in action and to learn more about it.

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