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Hoverboards! (1 Viewer)

The website implies its run with magnets, which makes no sense, unless the parking lot is magnetized with the opposite polarity of the board.

Head says fake, heart yearns to believe though

 
This is Catfish: The Movie Facebook fake online personas level shtick if indeed fake.

Bravo on their efforts to integrate Christopher Llloyd, TO, Mark Cuban, and Tony Hawk into the ruse.

 
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/why-are-all-these-celebrities-participating-in-an-epic-fake-hoverboard-troll/

Why Are All These Celebrities Participating In An Epic Fake Hoverboard Troll?Posted 1 hour agoby Darrell Etherington (@drizzled)
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If you’re looking for a well-crafted but ultimately very fake video about hoverboard technology featuring Moby, Terrell Owens, Tony Hawk and Dr. Emmett Brown himself, today is your lucky day. The video above is exactly what I’ve described, featuring a weird cast of cameos and what appears to be a fake tech team powering everything, plus a soundtrack with Chromeo and Best Coast. Also there’s a Mark Cuban endorsement to complete the strange assembly.

The tagline is that the “Future Has Arrived,” when in fact it hasn’t. Aside from being a clear (though still technically impressive) fake, the website for this demo and fake company also shows a counter with December 2014 as the projected “destination time” for whatever’s going on here. That could just be part of the artificial HUVr product dressing, but it could also be when whatever’s being promoted here breaks cover.

I’ve contacted the “HUVR CORP” folks to see if they have anything to add to this bizarre and amazing pastiche, which includes a real working DeLorean with a real working Christopher Lloyd, so we’ll see if that can generate any clarity over what the heck is going on here. In the meantime, just enjoy the weird.

UPDATE: So there’s actually more and it involves Billy Zane (he was a bully in Back to the Future, in case you lack in the Zane brain department), plus technobabble nonsense about how the fake hoverboards work. Some in the office are speculating this could be a teaser for Back To The Future 4, so let’s all pray that’s the case.


 
FatUncleJerryBuss said:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/why-are-all-these-celebrities-participating-in-an-epic-fake-hoverboard-troll/

Why Are All These Celebrities Participating In An Epic Fake Hoverboard Troll?Posted 1 hour ago by Darrell Etherington (@drizzled)
Next Story
HTC’s Weak February Revenue Tally Points To Coming Q1 Top Line Miss

If you’re looking for a well-crafted but ultimately very fake video about hoverboard technology featuring Moby, Terrell Owens, Tony Hawk and Dr. Emmett Brown himself, today is your lucky day. The video above is exactly what I’ve described, featuring a weird cast of cameos and what appears to be a fake tech team powering everything, plus a soundtrack with Chromeo and Best Coast. Also there’s a Mark Cuban endorsement to complete the strange assembly.

The tagline is that the “Future Has Arrived,” when in fact it hasn’t. Aside from being a clear (though still technically impressive) fake, the website for this demo and fake company also shows a counter with December 2014 as the projected “destination time” for whatever’s going on here. That could just be part of the artificial HUVr product dressing, but it could also be when whatever’s being promoted here breaks cover.

I’ve contacted the “HUVR CORP” folks to see if they have anything to add to this bizarre and amazing pastiche, which includes a real working DeLorean with a real working Christopher Lloyd, so we’ll see if that can generate any clarity over what the heck is going on here. In the meantime, just enjoy the weird.

UPDATE: So there’s actually more and it involves Billy Zane (he was a bully in Back to the Future, in case you lack in the Zane brain department), plus technobabble nonsense about how the fake hoverboards work. Some in the office are speculating this could be a teaser for Back To The Future 4, so let’s all pray that’s the case.
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So, the author just claims its fake with zero proof. Poor reporting.

 
Just so you know, none of the riders were wearing a harness under their shirts that was slightly pulling up just behind their neck.

 
It's gotta be some sort of viral marketing campaign meant to promote a movie or TV show. Based on the December 2014 teaser, probably a movie. And Back to the Future 4 is as good a guess as any.

 
TheMagus said:
It's gotta be some sort of viral marketing campaign meant to promote a movie or TV show. Based on the December 2014 teaser, probably a movie. And Back to the Future 4 is as good a guess as any.
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My guess is a reboot with Andrew Garfield as Marty.

 
You can see the shadow of the crane and the wire coming out from the side under the bottom of the shirt at 3:28

Too bad, been waiting for a Hoverboard for what, 25 years now?

 
If you guys think this is a cool fake, check out all the "3D printing" hoaxes flying around out there.

 
(HULK) said:
Psychopav said:
(HULK) said:
Psychopav said:
If you guys think this is a cool fake, check out all the "3D printing" hoaxes flying around out there.
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Oh yeah, they claim they can make wrenches and guns and all sorts of things. From printers!
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They can.
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IIRC I think there is one part of a gun that requires metal and cannot be manufactured by a 3D printer.

There is a kid in Texas (shocking, I know) who put specs to 3D print all the components to make a gun (except the one mentioned) online for free.

I am absolutely that searching for those specs online will put you on a government watch list.

 
Pretty sure metal can be 3d printed, just not on the home style of 3d printer.

Heck, biomaterial can be printed.

 
Arizona Ron said:
rockaction said:
Typical atheist trolling, actually.

You could tell as soon as Moby was in on it.
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Please unpack this for me
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I was drunk, frankly.

My main thinking was that it had the word "BELIEF" in big letters all over the place, was a magical device that you didn't even need balance for, and was too good to be true. I think it was a comment on all spiritual systems in general, and the general naivete of followers who won't question really obvious whoppers of lies.

But I read too much into things sometimes. It could have just been a hoax. But that's kind of a weird, unfunny hoax to not have a point.

 
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