These 3D-printed hand boards are created from plastic waste for riding the waves

Wabo is a collection of hand boards that are created from plastic waste produced from 3D-printed prototyping.

Eight million pieces of plastic make their way into the ocean on a daily basis. That’s a lot of plastic. While some brands commit themselves to gimmicky sustainable practices that have more to do with marketing than carbon-neutral manufacturing, other brands learn how to make something out of the plastic waste they produce.

Designer: Uido Design Studio

The multidisciplinary design studio Uido Design is a studio known for its catalog of 3D printable product designs and its team is doing something about the waste they produce during the design process. Shredding the plastic waste produced from 3D printing into bits and pieces, Uido Design uses the waste to create hand boards for users to ride the ocean waves.

Each time Uido Design develops a new product design, tons of boxes are filled with plastic waste from 3D-printed prototypes. “Our commitment to the planet is serious,” Uido Design suggests, “and our only waste as a company is those prototypes, so we started thinking about what we can do with them and how we can transform them into a new and fun product.”

Designed by Lautaro Lucero, the hand boards are handcrafted by both him and Tadeo Lucero. After the plastic waste has been shredded up into bits and pieces, the duo forms 6mm plates, which are then cut and transformed into hand boards for paddling in the ocean waves. While the hand boards are by no means a necessary product, they represent a fun way of making something out of the waste that can and will be put to use.

Uido Design Studio shreds the plastic waste into bits and pieces before forming them into 6mm plates.

A fitted strap is then attached to the curved plates for secure hand placement. 

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The world’s first 8-feet artificial wave generating pool to safely up your surfing game!

Feeling like hitting the waves? We don’t know when beaches will open but this controlled wave pool in Australia will be able to provide some relief to surfers while still being able to manage the crowds by keeping it to the recommended number of people as per social distancing guidelines. The interesting feature of this wave pool is that the generator creates waves in concentric circles that then radiate outwards. The idea for these concentric waves was conceived when Founder and CEO, Aaron Trevis, was tossing rocks into a lake with his children.

Surf Lakes is the world’s largest controlled wave pool famous for offering five different types of waves to their surfers! The pool generates 2000 waves per hour (so your week’s cardio is complete) thanks to the 5 Waves technology. It provides a safe space for surfers of all skill levels to practice and enjoy like they would in the ocean. It is as close to the real thing as you can get, the technology mimics the natural ocean groundswells resulting in waves that break over specially crafted reefs in sets of two or six per swell. Each pulse from the central generator can create 10 waves. To mimic the natural environment closely, each reef is distinctively shaped which allows the wave to crash and dissipate differently in terms of speeds, shapes, and sizes.

It has been the only facility to be able to generate an 8-feet tall wave artificially. The five different levels of waves all vary in difficulty, size, and length and are color-coded so beginner surfers through to moderate and advanced surfers can enjoy wave riding. Surf Lakes is working on making this technology available worldwide so that we can ride out this transition into the new normal!

Designer: Surf Lakes

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Combine the Board, Catch the Wave

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If you know anything about surfing, you’ll know that surf conditions can vary depending on your location, the time of year, the time of day, the weather, etc., etc – and considering there are specific board for specific conditions, this can play havoc when deciding what board to bring to the beach. This in turn can lead to bringing a few different boards to the beach.

From my experience of terrible surfing, I used to believe that surfing was a matter of just grabbing a board, hitting the beach and killing it on the waves, ‘brah’. Knowing the varied sizes and fins actually needed, that’s what makes the 2PRT surfboard by Thomas Meyerhoffer even more interesting.

Industrial designer Thomas Meyerhoffer, a former Senior Designer at Apple, all round cool dude, now the Co-founder & Chief Design Officer of Latch, has designed something that will truly revolutionise the surfboard game. With the ability to split the board into two parts, the user now has the ability to pack a much smaller board and turn that same board from a shortboard to a longboard to a gun (not an actually gun, it’s a type of board combination) in a matter of moments.

Designer: Thomas Meyerhoffer

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This Inflatable, Electric Surfboard Can Go 30 MPH

Surfboards are great and all, but they are cumbersome to transport from beach to beach. Well, the Lampuga AIR is an inflatable surfboard with handlebars and a 15HP electric jet-ski style motor which can propel you up to 30MPH. Since it is inflatable, it can squish down and travel with you easily.


However, you might want to ask yourself if you even need a surfboard with a motor. I thought the whole idea was to use the power of the wave. I guess it makes things more hardcore to get some extra speed. Plus, you can ride it on flat, quiet waters too, so there is that bonus. This thing will cruise up to 40 minutes on a full charge.

The one other downside? The Lampuga Air will cost you around $10,000 more than the old school version. And for those looking for something a bit more sturdy, there’s always the aluminum and carbon fiber Lampuga Boost, which is “only” about $14,000.

[via The Awesomer via Geekologie]

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