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The Hoverboard is here (sort of)
From Lexus.
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Not a one of them wearing a helmet. Duh.
The board looks really cool - I'm guessing liquid nitrogen for super conductivity of some sort (?) Probably insanely expensive to operate though, but a very cool R&D piece. |
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08-06-2015, 07:37 AM
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I'm calling BS - how would it have any lateral stability? It resists being pushed sideways but is more than happy to move forward.
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08-06-2015, 07:56 AM
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There is another video showing how they constructed the tracks for it to ride on. It works similar to a maglev train.
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I call BS. They're showing this thing as if it has some sort of lateral "traction" that prevents what I guess what would be called "drifting" in a car. The gyros needed to do something like that would be larger than the board itself.
Edit: Amail beat me to it. 
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Yes, tracks like the train where it rides above the surface on magnetic levitation. Like I said, it is here sort of. It does hover for about 20 minutes until the liquid nitrogen keeping the superconductors cold runs out.
Lexus maglev hoverboard: 20 minutes of magic in a skatepark | ExtremeTech
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Total BS. To hover over water it would need to displace water equal to the weight of the rider and board.
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Why does every video... even the how they did it version have to have techno blasting throughout??
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They are Japanese. Mostly.
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Not techno, breakbeat. Really awful breakbeat.
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Fine and dandy, but could you ride it?
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Yeah, has to ride on a track and has to be filled with liquid nitrogen periodically... but other than that it is EXACTLY like the ones in Back to the Future...
I have no problem with Lexus doing this as a publicity stunt for advertising... I do have a problem with the media misrepresenting that "the hoverboard has arrived!"
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