p2pnet.net News:- If you’re a surfer at Croyde beach in North Devon, England, today, and you see a surfer apparently typing on his board, don’t worry. It’s probably Jools Matthews and he’s hanging ten, but with his fingers instead of his toes.

Because it’s finally happened - online surfing has moved to the rolling breakers of a UK beach where WiFi surf-surfer Matthews has built a 9′ 4″ surfboard so he can surf while he’s surfing.

The board, “houses a laptop, solar panels, and video camera, and is to launch at the Intel GoldCoast Oceanfest on 18 June,” says a BBC story here, going on that it uses a high-speed hotspot on the beach.

“Chip makers Intel has commissioned the unusual surfboard as part of the free sports and music festival in North Devon to show off how technology can be brought to the sea and sand,” says the Beeb story.

GoldCoast Oceanfest starts today and ends on June 20.

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