Abu Dhabi
Spring 2015Flip Technologies
http://www.rideblock.com/We are passionate skateboarders and action sports enthusiast who are also engineers, hustlers and DIY hackers.
We are focused on developing activity trackers for action sports to digitize and quantify the activities performed and providing a comprehensive list of meaningful and actionable insights in trick details and fitness.
Flip Technologies has been recognised as one of the 5 startups who has the potential to grow in North America by Digital Media Zone, Toronto via “The Next Big Idea”. We were also incubated in DMZ.
Our product is Block – an activity tracker to monitor the tricks and activities on a skateboard/longboard. Our vision is to expand the technology to other sports like snow, surf, bmx in the future.
Currently we have a hardware device (Smart riser pad) which fits to the skateboard and connected to smartphone via Bluetooth.
The App helps to monitor tricks performed, compete with friends in exciting challenges, monitor your fitness and mapping your rides. Currently we have a working prototype and continuously testing the device and algorithm with the help of skateboarding communities across the world.
