wintermodo
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Who Wouldn’t Want This Smart Snowboard For Winter?
YouTube channel Network A is a lover of all things X Games — snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX, you name it. For their video series Every Third Thursday, Signal Snowboards, known for cool and atypical board designs, created the first open source programmable snowboard that can change music depending on the snowboarder’s orientation.
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This Spiked Rubber Band Equips Any Shoe For Icy Weather
If you don’t want to spend the entire winter wearing clunky boots, these elastic Nordic Grip Mini straps feature a pair of metal spikes that give any pair of shoes enough grip to tackle snow and ice. Strapping them on is as easy as putting an elastic band around your wrist, and they’re available in…
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The Pellet Stove That Actually Looks Like It Was Made In The 21st Century
We previously extolled the virtues of the space heater for warmth when the deep chill of winter arrives. But gazing at this pellet stove — a very modern-looking pellet stove — we’re rethinking what we want in our homes tonight.
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A Self-Propelled Snowboard Makes Going Uphill Just As Fun
When Archimedes thought up his revolutionary water-pumping screw, little did he know that one day a group of high school students in Lyon, France, would find a better use for his design. Their Propul-Surf uses a pair of horizontally-mounted screws to push a snowboard through the snow when gravity doesn’t provide enough momentum.