Canadian builds hoverboard that actually flies. For real. (1 Viewer)

[Wingnut]

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADV4FpkdtI

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn_afSOwmqo

http://www.fox13news.com/news/34066543-story

A Canadian company, Omni Hoverboards, has come up with a high flying, eight drone engine-esque powered Hoverboard that can carry the weight of a man.

According to the report on CBC News, inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru broke the world record for longest Hoverboard flight earlier this year. That jaunt on the board only lasted one and a half minutes. But he was able to go as high as sixteen feet in the air and traveled more than 900 feet.

 

[Wingnut]

Im wondering how long the batteries last, and how much flying time you could get from a charge. Pretty bad ### regardless.

 

[gianmarco]

Just in time to make Back to the Future II look even more genius. Now if only the Cubs would cooperate.

 

[cstu]

Now it's going to be even more difficult to stop them from sneaking across the border.

 

[Galileo]

Now we have a jet powered version... http://techxplore.com/news/2016-04-flyboard-air-hoverboard.html

 

[Rove!]

Now it's going to be even more difficult to stop them from sneaking across the border.

We're talking Canada here...they need to build a wall to keep us out...

 

[Riversco]

It doesn't doesn't have enough charge to really get anywhere.  What's holding us back in a lot of technologies is actually battery power.  We need to develop something with more kick.

 

[Henry Ford]

Great, they get healthcare and a feminist yogi prime minister who can explain quantum computing to reporters, and we get a woman who dresses like Kim Jong Un and thinks you have to have a separate device for every email account.

 

[cstu]

It doesn't doesn't have enough charge to really get anywhere.  What's holding us back in a lot of technologies is actually battery power.  We need to develop something with more kick.

Once again, hydrogen.

Intelligent Energy's fuel cell can power a modified drone for up to two hours - about six times longer than the average with a normal battery.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35890486