From a young age, we’ve repeatedly been told to put our faith in innovation. New inventions, especially in the technological world, are meant to make our lives easier, more streamlined, and less labor-intensive, not more difficult. However, what happens when our trust in technology turns treacherous?
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This Is As Close As We Will Get To Back To The Future Hoverboard For Now
If there is one tech in our 2011’s Top Ten Gadgets In Movies That Inspires And Excites Us that will never materialize, it would be the hoverboard from Back to the Future II. Or is it?
How Hoverboards Work Not In Back To The Future II
You can thank the the Segway for modern hoverboard scooters. At the time it was groundbreaking technology that allowed people to basically, just stand while moving to another place, like a moving conveyor-belt on wheels. Today, we live in the age of the hoverboard, though our current models have wheels and they don’t really hover. …
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Zapata Racing’s Flyboard Air Made The Farthest Flight By Hoverboard
Former Jet ski racer Frank Zapata’s Zapata Racing has come a long way. Since opening its doors for business with water-powered Flyboard and subsequently, the water-powered hoverboard, it has never stop innovating. The France outfit’s latest creation Flyboard Air, a product of 4 years of gruelling research and development, is a testimony of the firm’s …
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‘Mattel’ Hoverboard Really Hovers But You Can’t Actually Ride It
Hoverboard is a reality now, well, kind of cos’ they are not what as depicted in the sci-fi movie Back to the Future. Most of them can’t work without special surfaces, except for a couple (or one, to be exact) and they certainly can’t go anywhere (again, except for one). So, your only hope for …
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Rocket Scientists Made A Hoverboard That Hovers Without Special Surfaces
You know why with so many great minds, there aren’t any real hoverboards that can actually hovers without the need for special surfaces? Probably that’s because it takes a bunch of rocket scientists to make one and we didn’t make that up cos’ that is exactly what the rocket scientists over at Arca Space Corporation …
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The First Real Hoverboard is Getting an Improved and Streamlined Version
When Hendo Hoverboard was first introduced, the world was rousing with excitement, but its design leaves much to be desired. It was nothing like what Back to the Future II depicted. I hate to benchmark against a fantasy product, but that’s how we like our hoverboards to be, or at least a little more befitting …
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Lexus Hoverboard is Not Only Real, But it Can Hover Over Water too!
Remember the Lexus Hoverboard unveiled in June? Despite the skepticism, the hoverboard turns out to be a real deal. Yes. You heard that right. Back to the Future II kind of hoverboard is a reality, albeit hovering just slightly off the ground. A special skatepark called hoverpark was constructed to facilitate the testing of the …
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Wait, What? Lexus Has Developed a Real Working Hoverboard?
By now, we are all skeptics when it comes to hoverboard. Sure. We have seen a few ‘real-working’ examples like the record setting hoverboard, a magnetic levitation board that won’t work without metal underneath it and even a leaf blower-powered example. As real as they are, these ‘hoverboards’ are not quite the hoverboard we have …
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Homemade Hoverboard Set Guinness World Record for Farthest Journey by Hoverboard
The 2015 as interpreted by Robert Zemeckis consisted of flying cars, floating billboards, 3D hologram advertisement, self-lacing shoes, self-drying one-size-fits all jacket, and of course, the iconic and fantasy-inducing hoverboard. While some of them are making headways, they are not quite a reality yet, well, maybe except for the hoverboard which we have saw a …
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