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The hoverboards from Back to the Future 2 are pretty much a reality now!
CRASHR ^ | 10-23-14 | The Looking Spoon

Posted on 10/23/2014 8:42:07 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon

Yep, that's a real hoverboard full video here...

There are limitations to it, and the technology was developed more as an exploration into how to keep buildings safe in an earthquake...but it's really friggin' cool!


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: backtothefuture; hoverboard
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1 posted on 10/23/2014 8:42:07 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

It may have rotated in that video, but how do you TURN it?


2 posted on 10/23/2014 8:44:47 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Serious, is this real?


3 posted on 10/23/2014 8:45:15 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: The Looking Spoon

as long as you don’t deviate off the copper platform
and have no desire to be able to stop while on it.


4 posted on 10/23/2014 8:45:20 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni

Those must be some serious blower fans...lol. You KNOW there’s a weight limitation. I bet 120 lbs...


5 posted on 10/23/2014 8:50:17 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

It’s magnetic.


6 posted on 10/23/2014 8:53:00 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: jsanders2001

Bet the battery life is 2 minutes though. I bet it takes an enormous amount of power to run..,


7 posted on 10/23/2014 8:54:46 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Magnets, not fans.

And you need the floor surface to be a non-ferromagnetic conductor.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard


8 posted on 10/23/2014 8:54:49 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: jsanders2001

Low(er) cost maglev is not new.

Inductrac
http://136.142.82.187/eng12/Chair/pdf/4227.pdf

https://str.llnl.gov/str/October04/Post.html

Now keeping folks form stealing the copper... sigh


9 posted on 10/23/2014 8:54:52 AM PDT by Bidimus1
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To: The Looking Spoon

It’s a Roomba!


10 posted on 10/23/2014 8:55:33 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: jsanders2001

the battery lasts “just a few minutes,”

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/dont-get-too-excited-about-that-new-hoverboard-just-y-1648896230


11 posted on 10/23/2014 8:56:49 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

used on a curved surface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuWflDnAO9s


12 posted on 10/23/2014 8:58:16 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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13 posted on 10/23/2014 8:58:38 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: The Looking Spoon

I want to see it go down stairs...


14 posted on 10/23/2014 9:00:06 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: BunnySlippers

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=vf9wHkkNGUU

XD


15 posted on 10/23/2014 9:01:08 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: The Looking Spoon

Looks like Tesla tech inspired.


16 posted on 10/23/2014 9:02:18 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: thackney
the battery lasts “just a few minutes,”

Well that takes care of the stopping issue.

17 posted on 10/23/2014 9:02:44 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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18 posted on 10/23/2014 9:05:43 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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19 posted on 10/23/2014 9:07:22 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: mountn man

lol funny.


20 posted on 10/23/2014 9:08:09 AM PDT by Magnum44 (I have had just about enough)
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