Awesome Leisure

Globe’s new GSB series skateboards have a built-in Bluetooth speaker that has a 50mm driver and a passive bass radiator. The speaker is water-resistant and dustproof and lasts up to 7h per charge. It comes with a USB charging cable.

For the past ten years, surfing legend Kelly Slater and his team have been working on a system that creates long and sustained open-barrel waves. Now they’re ready to show off what they’ve accomplished.

Kuberg’s new electric motorcycle is designed to be easy enough for teens to ride but fun for adults as well. It weighs 79lb. and goes up to 34mph. Its battery lasts up to 1h per charge. The optional dongle and app let you record stats and limit torque and speed.

Made by former members of the Battlefield 2 mod Project Reality, Squad is a tactical FPS that aims to sit between arcade shooters like Call of Duty and realistic ones like ARMA. Up to 50 players per side need to work and plan together in order to succeed.

8man’s lab is working on an electronically enhanced version of chess called Blitzkrieg Speed Chess. Players don’t have to take turns, but each piece has a cooldown period before it can be moved again.

For the past month, the Beatles’ official Vevo account has been uploading high definition videos of some of their live performances. These videos and more are available in 4K resolution in the Beatles 1 video collection.

Filmed over the course of seven years, Pieter-Jan De Pue’s The Land of the Enlightened is a documentary about two gangs of children in Afghanistan and how they survive and dream in their war-torn land.

17 minutes of footage of this visually compelling new first-person adventure. Firewatch is a mystery about a fire lookout in the isolation of the Wyoming wilderness who leaves his post to investigate who ransacked his tower. Coming to PS4, Windows, Linux and Mac in 2016.

Skateboarders Mitchie Brusco and Italo Penarrubia teamed up to perform an unusual and impressive stunt – as they rode down a jumbo-sized ramp, across a jump, and swapped boards in mid-air before landing on the other side of the chasm.

LEGO has many building models in its Architecture sub-brand, but its upcoming Skyline collection will let you assemble up to five of a city’s popular structures per set. The first three sets are for New York, Berlin and Venice. Drops 1/1/16.

Become a whisky connoisseur fast with The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whisky Know-it-All, a 24-page guide by master sommelier Richard Betts. The book includes a flavor profile chart and scratch-and-sniff scents to help identify flavor elements.

Stay in a remote island – mainly in the Philippines, Indonesia or the Caribbean – with nothing but basic supplies and nature to get you by. They have both comfortable and hardcore adventure packages.

Yes, that’s Tina Fey with an assault rifle. Fey stars along with Margot Robbie, Billy Bob Thornton, and Martin Freeman in this dark comedy about a journalist who finds herself on the ground covering the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Based on a true story by Kim Barker.

Awe-inspiring footage from the upcoming space epic Star Citizen, showing off real-time footage of its incredibly robust procedurally-generated planets, which can be viewed from up close or afar, with astounding realism. Guess it’s time to upgrade our graphics cards.

(PG-13) An American desperate to keep her land and a Honduran who escaped his country have a bizarre experience together. Bryan K. Vaughan (Saga) and his The Private Eye co-creators Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente weave a tale of violence, language and immigration.

A visually-stunning puzzle platformer where you play as Yarny, a creature made from an old woman’s ball of yarn. Help him travel across Northern Scandinavia as he tries to gather memories and reunite a family. Coming to Windows, Xbox One and PS4 on 2/9/16.

BMX rider Davis Dudelis turned his bike into an impromptu unicycle, cruising 263 meters (~862 feet) balanced only on the front wheel of his two-wheeler. While it’s not been confirmed by Guinness, it’s definitely longer than the record for a rear wheelie.

From LAIKA, the studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls, comes another promising stop-motion movie. Kubo and the Two Strings is about a boy who goes on a quest to retrieve the armor of his father, who was the greatest samurai who ever lived.

The TabletTV’s portable receiver streams digital OTA TV signals to multiple iPads. Use the TabletTV Plus app to watch and record shows. It has a microSD slot to store recorded videos, and you can transfer videos to the iPad as well.

J.J. Abrams was too busy in that other Star universe to direct the new Star Trek film, but Justin Lin’s (Fast & Furious) franchise debut looks like a summer romp that should satisfy action fans more than any Trek movie before. Let’s hope the sci-fi and humor come through.

The workshop of Artisan Dice creates incredible limited-run dice in wood, metal, bone, stone, steel, acrylic, Teflon, carbon fiber and more. They even make dice from old whiskey barrels. Check out their YouTube channel to learn more about how they’re made.

The latest trailer for XCOM 2 shows off the game’s new weapons, classes, enemies and the mobile command center. For a second there we thought we were watching an Honest XCOM Trailer. Check out Eurogamer’s hour-long gameplay demo for more.

(PG-13: Language) The debut music video of up-and-coming technical rapper Jamal Gutierrez, aka A-F-R-O. From his free mixtape Tales from the Basement. You wouldn’t know it from his booming voice and verbal gymnastics, but the kid’s just 18 years old.