‘Touch Grind’ Flips iPhone Fingerboarding

To skaters of a certain age, fingerboards (miniature plastic skateboards originally marketed as keychains) evoke memories of countless hours spent doing boardslides on schoolbooks and executing ollies five times the length of the board. Now Illusion Labs has introduced a new iPhone game called Touch Grind that improves on the concept for the digital age.

Available next month from the iPhone App Store (price TBA), Touch Grind takes old-fashioned fingerboarding to the next level. Whereas version 19.89 was predicated on the stickiness of fingersweat to perform tricks, the Touch Grind deck relies on finger gestures, allowing players to do flip tricks that were impossible with the 20th Century version. Check out a video of the game below.

[Touch Grind via OhGizmo]