DailyDirt: The Future Is All About Hovering

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Tue, Jun 17th 2014 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Until quantum levitation and room temperature superconductors are a practical reality, we're still without hoverboards and flying cars. The future has promised everyone some kind of hovering transportation, but we'll just have to be patient and wait for the technology to be refined and made economical, right? Here are just a few hopeful links to getting your hovering fix sooner rather than later.

Toyota has publicly stated that it's working on making a hovering car. The idea is that a hovercraft-like car would have reduced friction and be more efficient, so the trick will be to figure out how to make a vehicle float without expending too much energy. [url]
There's a commercially available Hoverboard that lets a rider surf up to 30 feet above water. This board shoots a powerful jet of water to lift its rider up, and it requires a supply water hose and a trailing jet ski for its power supply. [url]
For folks who remember Back To The Future II and hoverboards, the possibility of real hoverboards (made by HUVr Tech) is not just special effects and hidden support wires -- the futuristic skateboards EXIST. Or it's all just an elaborate hoax, like the moon landings.... [url]

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Filed Under: back to the future, flying cars, future, hoverboard, hovercraft, jet ski, levitation, quantum levitation, superconductivity
Companies: toyota

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NoahVail (profile), 17 Jun 2014 @ 7:29pm

*sigh*
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/tony-hawk-is-very-sorry-he-made-everyone-believe-hoverboards-were-re al
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Anonymous Coward, 17 Jun 2014 @ 9:22pm

floating cars. little bitty engines and great big brakes.
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Jeffrey Nonken (profile), 18 Jun 2014 @ 12:16am

Hah hah!

My favorite moon landing hoax debunk.
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DaveK (profile), 18 Jun 2014 @ 5:47am

Seriously?
You got taken in by this months-old, long since exposed hoverboard hoax? That was quarter of a year ago, dude. Get with the program!
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2014 @ 9:46am

"so the trick will be to figure out how to make a vehicle float without expending too much energy."

The trickiest part of this is actually that hovercraft have extreme difficulty with the camber of the road and tend to drift down to the sidewalk.
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John85851 (profile), 18 Jun 2014 @ 11:24am

Old news
The date on the USAToday site about the hoverboard was back in March. In Internet terms, that's ages for people to debunk a story.
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