Surf the web, while, uhhh, surfingTechnology hits the waves. Pro surfer Duncan Scott will be launching the new Intel Wireless Technology Surfboard at the 2004 Intel GoldCoast Oceanfest (a free sports and music festival held in Devon) which starts today. And it's not a total gimmick, the board should be good to ride, having been developed by Jools Matthews of Gulfstream surfboards, whose responsible for shaping over 15000 boards in his 15 year surfboard-making career.

And the PC tablet installed in the board is a pretty useful machine by the sounds of it. It hooks up to any handy WiFi spots (so no joy for those of you surfing any of NZ's bigger breaks, I imagine), with the best feature being the ability for surfer's to record footage of themselves surfing (for streaming, or editing later on). Should be great for those lulls out the back between sets.

Pretty anathema to the spirit of surfing though, innit?
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