 Hey everyone, it's Sam with The Verge and I'm about to ride the Board of Awesomeness. Have you ever done any downhill longboarding before? Yes. Alright, this is going to be very similar. When you're down in your position, you have the weight on the ball of your foot, there's a kill switch on there. You want to make sure the ball of your foot is on the kill switch and you never want it to come off. What you see here, you could do with some of the open source SDKs, we've got some things like the voice recognition, a lot of the localization that does utilize the Microsoft APIs. That's why we're using this. We're actually using some of the nice Windows 8 APIs for some of the infrastructure that's doing a really good job. So we've been riding the board for a couple minutes now and there's three settings, low, medium, high. I seem to have gotten down low and medium and let's see what happens when I crank it up.
 Hey everyone, it's Sam with The Verge and I'm about to ride the Board of Awesomeness.
 Have you ever done any downhill longboarding before?
 Yes.
 Alright, this is going to be very similar.
 When you're down in your position, you have the weight on the ball of your foot, there's
 a kill switch on there.
 You want to make sure the ball of your foot is on the kill switch and you never want it
 to come off.
 What you see here, you could do with some of the open source SDKs, we've got some things
 like the voice recognition, a lot of the localization that does utilize the Microsoft APIs.
 That's why we're using this.
 We're actually using some of the nice Windows 8 APIs for some of the infrastructure that's
 doing a really good job.
 So we've been riding the board for a couple minutes now and there's three settings, low,
 medium, high.
 I seem to have gotten down low and medium and let's see what happens when I crank it
 up.