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Lexus Creates a Hoverboard
walterbyrd writes: Lexus has built a functional prototype of a hoverboard that hovers several centimeters off the ground. The "Slide" is for demonstration purposes only and works through magnetic levitation created by superconductors, a spokesperson says. USA Today reports: "As cool as that sounds, there are some major limitations. Since it operates magnetically, it only can hover over a steel surface. And it also only works as long as the liquid nitrogen holds out."
Not very impressive.
Maglev with superconductors and liquid nitrogen is not very impressive?
Sorry, I disagree.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
no power, still doesn't work over water. lame.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Temba ... his arms wide ... ... the steeliness of the floaty-surface inadequately achieves the hoverageness of the levitationality because of ... why?
Anybody can snark, enlighten us.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
October 21st is getting closer.
The problem with hovercrafts is that they tend to get full of eels.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Ok, it's a hoverboard - in the narrow sense of it being a board and it hovers.
One would expect it to to still hover with 80kg of person standing on it. Does it do that? A cursory look shows me no pictures of this.
This is just too beautiful, you're like two warships warily circling one another in the dark, unable to pinpoint each other's location.
Unfortunately our poster has you at a disadvantage; perhaps this may be of assistance. I'd like to say "Ironically, it was Monty Python all along," but I'm not sure that's a good example of irony but if it actually was then I'm even less sure I'd get away with it. :-)
..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
Oh give it a rest. Do you think the first rockets carried satellites into space? Do you think the first airplane flew across the country? New tech doesn't start out as the end-all-be-all, it starts out as a baby step and people with higher aspirations improve upon it until it's something you never thought possible. Your attitude of "It's useless because it doesn't do what I imagined" is just ridiculous.