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Perhaps this won't work as a 'hoverboard' since you need a copper floor for it to work, but in a warehouse/shipping configuration, it could make it possible to move incredibly heavy weights by hand without motorized help...and that's just one possible use.
I'm impressed, and awaiting a useful product from them. Until then, someone call Marty McFly.

Oh...and can't forget the obligatory "My hoverboard is full of eels!"

"Outside the box...and then off the page"

*vomit*

Cool, but loud..

If you used recycled circuit boards, your floor could end up cheaper than your board.

They've got until 2015 to work out the kinks

Great Scott.

This is heavy.

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Since we're talking about things that hover over specially-prepared floors, we might as well talk about gas film levitation (think: air hockey) that can be used to levitate very heavy objects on a smooth floor. It's used to test spacecraft docking in earthbound laboratories, for example. I'm sure someone's tried a skateboard-like platform at some point. This mag-lev system is pretty cool however, as is the shiny copper floor.

They're just begging some meth-heads to come and steal that floor for scrap.

What also makes me vomit is how it was eventually presented as some kind of humanitarian gesture of offering up a new technology to people, expanding our horizons thanks to this philanthropy, woe be unto the wheel for we give you all the gift of ... electrodynamic levitation, which has been around since the early 1900s. It's just more cost effective and this douchebag knocked one together.

I could make one.. the only downside is where and how to store the energy required to run it.

Umm. Wheels work pretty good. Unless this thing can chase after a train on open ground so I can save Doc's girlfriend, I don't see the benefit. But for 300 bucks I get the chance to figure out a purpose for it. No thanks.

Moving buildings? Wtf is he talking about? It sounds like a jet engine just barely holding a person. And what's going to power that? Mr. Fusion?

Thunderfoots thoughts on the hoverboard and it's technology