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Birth of a Motorized Surfboard

Posted by michael on from the david-hasselhoff dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "The October Mechanical Engineering has a article on the creation of a motorized surfboard. Looks like a bigger creative leap than Segway and potentially a lot more fun!"

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  1. Gas powered surfboard by ee_moss · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't the first motorized surfboard I've seen. I once saw a gas powered surfboard posted on Ebay, and it looked to be created in the 70's or 80's sometime, if not before that. The thing weighed in at over 50 lbs from what I recall, not too practical for surfing or carrying around the beach.

  2. Company Website by emptybody · · Score: 4, Informative


    Here is the site, PowerSki.com

    I have dreamed of these for years.
    I wonder if I can get it in kit form?

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  3. Motorized HYDROFOIL surfboard by john_smith_45678 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, motorized has been done. Even has hydrofoils!

    http://robijn.net/hydrofoil/

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    John Kerry is a Joke!
  4. Clearly cool but, Retro by 70m_5w1f7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    This was done before I was born
    and
    just about anybody I ever hit waves /and/ hung with -
    Talked about this type of fun...

    Simple Google search:

    "motor surfboard" yields competition.

    Too easy to check.

    Whatever...

  5. What a piece of sh@t idea by J3zmund · · Score: 2, Informative

    As a surfer, I'm appalled. This looks more annoying that gas powered scooters and jet-skis combined. If you can't paddle out, you don't belong on a surfboard (the guy who started Life Rolls On and tow-in big wave surfers aside).

    Some people just don't get it. I'm sure the first person to bring one of these into our local lineups will be dealt with accordingly.

    From a techie standpoint, I can only wonder why this was created.

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    It's all Hood
  6. Re:Hang Octane! Cowabunk! by ColaMan · · Score: 2, Informative
    Approximately 127 million adults in the U.S. are overweight, 60 million obese, and 9 million severely obese.

    AOA Fact Sheets

    So I'm guessing BIG really does mean lard-ass, in the american case anyway. Especially since it would appear from those stats that more than half the population is overweight.

    For the record , from OECD health data, the list from most obese to less obese countries goes :
    1. USA
    2. UK
    3. Australia
    4. New Zealand
    5. Canada
    6. Czech Republic
    7. Spain
    8. Finland
    9. Italy
    10. Sweden
    11. Denmark
    12. Switzerland
    I presume by "skinny whine drinking smoking shorties", you mean the french... they're not even on the list.
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