Magnetic Hover Chairs

Inspired by the hover board flown by Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part 2 (1989), British company HoverIt, Ltd. has designed the world’s first consumer-ready hover chair. Available for just under $10,000 U.S., the hover chair works like a mag-lev train, floating above a set of powerful magnets, as shown by Steve Wild and Keith Dixon on Richard and Judy on Feb. 6th, 2008.
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The hover chair's magnets require no re-charge and will shed just 2% of their power over the first 20 years of use.

While the hover chair of course falls into the novelty category at this early stage, I can imagine a variety of future applications for long-lived magnetics that include shock absorption while walking or gliding, new-fangled fitness training equipment and ultimately some sort of hover board that works in concert with a gyroscopically regulated platform such as the one at the heart of the Segway human transporter.

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