Company Claims To Have Developed Working Hoverboard (video link)
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[url]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard[/url]
[url]http://www.iflscience.com/technology/hoverboard-touted-can-it-go-distance[/url]
[quote]Hoverboards, according to Back to The Future, are just a year away, and one company claims they can deliver in the nick of time. However, it remains to be seen if this promise has much more substance than the various hoaxes that have come out since the film.
Producing a hoverboard that would work over all (solid) surfaces and fly meters off the ground would take a technological breakthrough far beyond anything we are likely to manage soon. More realistic would be a sort of solo version of a maglev train. However, the excitement of riding up and down the same track would probably pale quickly.
The latest claim falls somewhere in between. Rather than only being able to hover over a repulsive magnet, the company Arx Pax, sometimes referring to themselves as Hendo, claim their board will carry a human over any conductor that is not ferromagnetic – that is not containing iron, nickel or cobalt.
Arx Pax say that the hoverboard will be just the beginning, a way of mobilizing the capacity of technology that will eventually embrace flying cars and earthquake-proof buildings. They've certainly convinced some people, with their Kickstarter campaign more than half-funded.[/quote]
The video is in the link.
If this turns out to be another hoax, i will rip that old guys tits off.
Its not a hoax is just making assload of money off idiots
The thing is similar to maglev trains. It will only work on non ferrous conductive metals (aka copper and aluminum). They say "we believe one day this will work on any surface, even water!" Which is total bullshit and they should be sued. But the "we believe" part probably makes it so they can't be.
This technology has existed for a long time but no one has made this because it's dumb when it requires a special surface
Don't give yet another [I]dumb crowd funding project where the creators know this will go no where and are using it as free money[/I] money, please.
Even if it requires a special surface, it still seems like a cool idea. I can imagine an aluminum skate park. Sure there won't be many of those (at all) but... It's a step in a good direction I think. Plus there seems to be some kind of dev box or whatever that can make other things hover, like toys.
It's still interesting regardless, though the next big step is to work out how to enable levitation without the special surfaces. Other than using tons of high-pressure air like oldschool hovercraft.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;46305208]Its not a hoax is just making assload of money off idiots
The thing is similar to maglev trains. It will only work on non ferrous conductive metals (aka copper and aluminum). They say "we believe one day this will work on any surface, even water!" Which is total bullshit and they should be sued. But the "we believe" part probably makes it so they can't be.
This technology has existed for a long time but no one has made this because it's dumb when it requires a special surface
Don't give yet another [I]dumb crowd funding project where the creators know this will go no where and are using it as free money[/I] money, please.[/QUOTE]
Sort of like [I][B]SOLAR ROADYWAYS!!![/B][/I]
Where [I]did[/I] [I][B]Solar Roadways[/B][/I] go, anyway.
If this tech was feasible, maglevs would have replaced regular trains by now. The concept is over 100 years old and there are reasons why it's not widespread.
9 times out of 10 wheels are better. They're just more practical. They provide at least some traction, they allow for narrower turns, they don't consume energy while idle, they're cheaper, they're less complex... And so on and on.
Don't get fooled. Skateboards are still more fun.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;46305406]Sort of like [I][B]SOLAR ROADYWAYS!!![/B][/I]
Where [I]did[/I] [I][B]Solar Roadways[/B][/I] go, anyway.[/QUOTE]
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And the creators went all the way to the bank, laughing
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;46305451]Down
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Actually they are putting them in select places next spring
And it's funded
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Your avatar fits with absolutely everything you say.
Please dont say the same to me..
Holy shit 10 people are so retarded they have spent 10K on this shit
I thought it would be really neat for making hovertrolleys guided by basic AI in warehouses and shit but then I realized those already exist and wheels end up being far superior (reliability, mechanism required, energy used).
I was a finalist in a National Young Scientist competition when me and my friends made electromagnetic hovercars in pretty much the same fashion but we deemed it non viable because with current technology the roads would have to be made of aluminium, which would be far too expensive.
So I'm excited to see this develop but the rider will have minimal influence over the board given the way magnetism works.
What's the song in that video? I'm like 90% sure it's Explosions in The Sky.
Thank you for creating a battery ran skateboard/snowboard with no control over yaw.
[QUOTE=Drury;46305420]If this tech was feasible, maglevs would have replaced regular trains by now. The concept is over 100 years old and there are reasons why it's not widespread.
9 times out of 10 wheels are better. They're just more practical. They provide at least some traction, they allow for narrower turns, they don't consume energy while idle, they're cheaper, they're less complex... And so on and on.
Don't get fooled. Skateboards are still more fun.[/QUOTE]
Guys look how much energy we're saving by spending all this energy to ignore friction.
Plus this thing is only 1 inch off the ground and to me the appeal of a hoverboard would be, well to hover and you'd be higher off the ground on a skateboard. Marty got like over a foot on his.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;46306314]What's the song in that video? I'm like 90% sure it's Explosions in The Sky.[/QUOTE]
Very close but it's not Explosions in the Sky.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfUNfK8tyQ[/media]
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