Real Hoverboard Makes Its Flying Debut

[ScienceRocks]

Real Hoverboard Makes Its Flying Debut
Real Hoverboard Makes Its Flying Debut : DNews

The ArcaBoard, resembling a giant, 180-pound skateboard, can hover over concrete, sand, water or ice. The gadget is being touted as the “first revolutionary breakthrough in motion since the bicycle, automobile and airplane,” according to ARCA, the aerospace company behind the intriguing gadget.

There are certainly some limitations, though. For starters, with a hefty $19,900 price tag, it will certainly cost you. Meanwhile, the hoverboard can only cruise through the air for only six minutes at a time.

That’s not to say that the feat, while short-lived, isn’t amazing. Take a closer look at the ArcaBoard that promises to give you the “total freedom” of flying.

Very cool

 

[Iceweasel]

It's going to change transportation just like the Segway did.

 

[ScienceRocks]

It may or may not. It is a wait see! maybe a future version will last longer and move faster.

 

[Pogo]

It's going to change transportation just like the Segway did.

 

[Pogo]

It may or may not. It is a wait see! maybe a future version will last longer and move faster.

Hey, the first successful Wright Brothers' flight was 852 feet. Today you can board a Qantas flight to Sydney Australia nonstop from Dallas.

--which is understandable --- any time you find yourself in Dallas you want to get as far away from it as possible....

 

[Two Thumbs]

neat

gunna need huge advances in battery tech to get much more use out of it, but it looks like fun

 

[miketx]

No thanks.

 

[ScienceRocks]

No thanks.

Yes, you can ride your horsy around.

 

[miketx]

No thanks.

Yes, you can ride your horsy around.

And you can go perform an anatomical impossibility.