Surfing while surfing

[Vahur]

Slashdot had an article of surf board, which had embedded wifi webcam laptop:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/18/1240235.shtml?tid=137&tid=159&tid=186&tid=193
Wondering, when Intel develops similar gadget for snowoard: it would be good, if you can check your ride down while going up on lift ;)

[Ghostrider]

Actually, I was in the process of playing with tiny wifi "spy" cams and mounting them to different things. I have one already mounted to a nitro remote control car (65mph 2 inches off the road looks pretty sweet).

I'm working on making a mount for the board or boots to get a "boards eye view"..but I cant test it till next winter. But you can be sure I'll post the footage here.

[skategoat]

Great idea but I don't see how this would work. You would need something to capture the video from the cam. Are you going to carry a laptop on your back? Remember, it's gotta be running and capturing the video. If you crash while it's running, say bye-bye to your hard drive.

[Ghostrider]

don't need a computer. the video feeds to a reciever which you could have padded in your backpack or pocket that is plugged into a miniDV video camera. Its just called wifi cuz it works on the same frequency range.

[pokkis]

Yeh, you dont need computer here, these small cams on board can be easily connected to cameras with normal video cable, as seen on video clip made in Extreme Carving session @ Zinal.
I did also some runs with camera mounted to helmet but it was not as good(=effective) that way in groomed slopes.
You can see my setup in http://pokkis.ojankaivajat.org then Carving pictures and then Camera section.
Currently there is small clip of that available as part of trailer for our new carving dvd :D "The Carver strikes back" in http://stoked.at. There go to Multimedia and look for Ojankaivajat.org section in middle of great list of all available carving clips. File format is wmv-format :D

[skategoat]

I can't wait to see some video then. I tried to shoot some video last winter while holding a camera. It didn't do much for my technique and the resulting video was a shakey mess. I think image-stabilizing technology is a must.