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Yes. Back to the Future: Sclog reports that a Hoverboard, ridden by Canadian inventor of Romanian descent Catalin Alexandru Duru, has broken the Guinness World Records record and delivers realistic performance targets!
Seriously, it looks like this is the equivalent of the Wright Brothers flight!
From the Guinness article:
Catalin reaches a height of 5 metres on his prototype hoverboard covering a distance of over twice that of two full sized football pitches before gently landing in the exquisite waters of Lake Ouareau in Quebec, Canada. He claims that the machine, which he built and designed over the course of 12 months, can be used anywhere and can reach 'scary heights' which he would like to potentially explore in the near future.
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Justin Case on Monday May 25 2015, @10:42PM
Wow that is noisy! Plus it looks dangerous. Clearly we need some regulations right now! Call your legislator! Make the inventor put silencers on the fans. We need height limits, speed limits, licenses and permits!
With any luck we can set this back 30 years while the automotive industry figures out how to preserve their obsolete business model.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday May 25 2015, @11:27PM
It's not just dangerous, it's a manned citizen drone! Scramble the jets!
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday May 26 2015, @01:26PM
Flying terrorists, illegals flying over the border, drug smuggling, flying DC sniper/columbine/sandyhook, oppressive flying police force, etc. Someone is going to start "predicting" all sorts of negative nonsense sooner or later.
Looks cool though.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday May 25 2015, @11:45PM
And notice that when the batteries fail, they do so abruptly, at which point, batteries, motors, and passenger go splash.
The ability to attain any significant height would be dangerous over anything but water.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 26 2015, @01:44AM
For some limited values of "significant". For all the others, you are invited to re-watch a certain episode [youtube.com] of MythBusters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday May 26 2015, @02:01AM
Aren't you supposed to go near the ground while hovering?
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday May 26 2015, @02:16AM
Yeah, but I am impressed that he could get that much power out of such a small package. As for the noise, I've seen from about a 1/4 mile LCACs from the LHD USS Essex landing on the beach near Kawaihae, Hi. in a large naval exercise 3 years ago. Now that was noise.
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday May 26 2015, @03:42AM
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(Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:34AM
... set this back 30 years while the automotive industry figures out how to preserve their obsolete business model.
What obsolete business model is that? I will replace my car with a hoverboard when the latter can carry rolls of galvanised steel fence mesh, bricks from the builders merchant, planks from the timber merchant, old washing machines to the scrapyard, rolls of carpet, 3-year-olds, grandmothers, anyone else in my circle incapable of learning to fly or drive - oh, and pull tree roots out of the ground. Just to mention a few things I've done recently.
The hoverboard would have evolved into a flying car by then, so that won't be long, will it?