Remember that Hoverboard Hoax?????
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Floating magnets. We've had that since I was little. They make trains that work on that, just don't use them in the US.
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yeah, i was gonna mention the trains. oh well
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@Hubtech said:
yeah, i was gonna mention the trains. oh well
This was big news when I was a little kind (three decades ago.) Now the technology today isn't as cold as that was, so it is a lot more casual to use. But doesn't look very useful. -
@scottalanmiller but it's neat.
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@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller but it's neat.
doesn't always have to change the world.Unless I see a cool application for it, I'm calling it "neat-ish" at best.
Not sure it's up to neat status yet.Now a personal quadcopter that you can fly around? That's neat. I can actually buy one and do something really cool with it. This, I can't even play with this at home.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Not so much a hoverboard as a hoverboard enabled surface. Kinds of moots the project.
It's definitely not as useful as a hoverboard that can work on anything save water
but I wouldn't call it a moot tech.It has already been done on water
The first time I saw a flyboard, I was out wade fishing by myself in the lagoon. I stopped and watched the guy for 15 straight minutes trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
There is a place near one of my fishing holes where you can rent them. So now I see them all the time.
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@IRJ said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Not so much a hoverboard as a hoverboard enabled surface. Kinds of moots the project.
It's definitely not as useful as a hoverboard that can work on anything save water
but I wouldn't call it a moot tech.It has already been done on water
lol yeah not quite the same - this only works on water.... lol
But I do want to try this some day!
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@IRJ said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Not so much a hoverboard as a hoverboard enabled surface. Kinds of moots the project.
It's definitely not as useful as a hoverboard that can work on anything save water
but I wouldn't call it a moot tech.It has already been done on water
The first time I saw a flyboard, I was out wade fishing by myself in the lagoon. I stopped and watched the guy for 15 straight minutes trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
There is a place near one of my fishing holes where you can rent them. So now I see them all the time.
Yeah, my dad's best friend has done that. Supposed to be really tricky but a ton of fun!
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Most people appear to just dive head first into the water eventually.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Most people appear to just dive head first into the water eventually.
I have never been one , but I have seen people keep their balance for 30 minutes plus before. I think most people do the dive thing because its fun.
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@scottalanmiller I can see this in warehouse distributions points. I work in a warehouse that's over 5 football fields long with rows and rows of parts. Staff pick parts and then have to take them back to the loading dock. Imagine if you could use this tech for extremely heavy items, bulky items, or just a large order. The picker doesn't have to know how to operate a forklift, trudge a pallet jack, or exert a lot of force to move the product from point a to point b.
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@milnesy said:
@scottalanmiller I can see this in warehouse distributions points. I work in a warehouse that's over 5 football fields long with rows and rows of parts. Staff pick parts and then have to take them back to the loading dock. Imagine if you could use this tech for extremely heavy items, bulky items, or just a large order. The picker doesn't have to know how to operate a forklift, trudge a pallet jack, or exert a lot of force to move the product from point a to point b.
There is definitely real-world applications, just not in the consumer's hands.That sounds like a job for conveyor belts. Its hard to imagine any type of hoover board working on extremely heavy items at this stage of its development. Maybe in 10-15 years though.
