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I don't even skateboard and I'm excited.

Up next flying cars, take that Michellini you morbidly obese ghost.

I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

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I'm going to go ahead and assume this is a hoax, that way if it turns out to be true I can be pleasantly surprised, rather than get my hopes up and be crushed if it turns out to be fake.

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"Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks

So far everything that I've read says it's real but very, very limited.

 

Like Gfted1 posted it needs a smooth metal surface since it's powered by magic magnetic mumbojumbo

 

more links

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2014/10/21/hendo-hoverboard/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/technology/hoverboard-still-in-the-future.html?_r=1

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/21/we-rode-a-hoverboard/

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/21/7025197/i-rode-a-real-hoverboard

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Well, if it requires a special floor (some magnetic stuff?) then it's not so cool anymore.

"only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."

It might be all right for amusement parks and/or specially built rinks. But then it becomes a chicken-and-the-egg marketing problem, with normal skate boards holding a massive advantage.

"It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."

It might be all right for amusement parks and/or specially built rinks. But then it becomes a chicken-and-the-egg marketing problem, with normal skate boards holding a massive advantage.

Really? Because I was thinking more along the lines of bullet train, which IIRC works on the same concept.

I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

village_idiot.gif

 

It might be all right for amusement parks and/or specially built rinks. But then it becomes a chicken-and-the-egg marketing problem, with normal skate boards holding a massive advantage.

Really? Because I was thinking more along the lines of bullet train, which IIRC works on the same concept.

 

Huh? Well hopefully the bullet train is more economical than its alternative: aircraft. Otherwise it's wasting spending billions of yen on construction and support costs. But if so, then there is a valid reason for the bullet train to exist. Not so the hover toy. It will require construction overhead just to make the toy usable, and the potential users already have skate boards with free parks nearby.

"It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."

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