Kickstarter for Hoverboards

[bcredeur97]

how exactly does it work? I understand the BASICS of it is magnets pushing against each other, but its not like the magnets are on the ground?? unless they are? Im so confused, they didnt explain it well enough for me

[Beskamir]

I'll believe it when I see @LinusTech review one

[ItsComrade]

I don't see this as being very revolutionary. Maybe only a gimmick.

[Trik'Stari]

[Thony]

the event is today

Did u come back from 2015 to post this comment today and lost your memory in the process or just missed the fact it on 21/10/2015 ? Maybe just stupid American mm/dd/yy confused you.

PS. Funny how latest "The Big Bang Theory" episode was kinda about hooverboard from "Back to the Future"

[Captain_Slow]

what if you are fat? can you still use it?

[Thony]

what if you are fat? can you still use it?

I believe there will be the weight limit.

[ShadowCaptain]

I don't see this as being very revolutionary. Maybe only a gimmick.

 

What? we could have like hover cars and hover bikes! This is just as revolutionary as the wheel

[Electrostatik]

I'll believe it when I see @LinusTech review one

 

Kickstarter to help him get one?

[Thony]

What? we could have like hover cars and hover bikes! This is just as revolutionary as the wheel

When it gets to the point it can hover over ANY type of surface, thats revolutionary This is just a little step towards revolution.

[ShadowCaptain]

When it gets to the point it can hover over ANY type of surface, thats revolutionary This is just a little step towards revolution.

 

Well yeah, but big things start in small places

[Snickerzz]

Guys this looks really cool but will probably just turn out like segways.,.

[daemonowner]

If this is just electromagnetism, then no this won't even reach the stage of segway. This is a gimmick. A toy for those with too much money, and not a real advance of science.

[garmada]

This is nothing more than hype train for people who don't understand how things work. This could work only if you could buy board for (max) 1000 usd and you could ride on ANY surface. In this state it is totally stupid, anyone who buy this will use it only couple times at home to show guests. This is same as solar roadways (stupid and incredible expensive).

[ShadowCaptain]

This is nothing more than hype train for people who don't understand how things work. This could work only if you could buy board for (max) 1000 usd and you could ride on ANY surface. In this state it is totally stupid, anyone who buy this will use it only couple times at home to show guests. This is same as solar roadways (stupid and incredible expensive).

 

Yeah, its a toy... thats why they have made a hoverboard and hover park... to play with

 

but technology has to start somwhere, in the future we could have hover roads and cars, and all sorts, but people have to experiment with technology to figure out its capabilities

 

It might not even have consumer application, what about Medical/scientific use? like a hospital stretcher that hovers so as to not cause discomfort to the patient, or a way of moving around samples in a lab without knocking things (just random off the top of my head examples)

[HippY]

Yeah, its a toy... thats why they have made a hoverboard and hover park... to play with

 

but technology has to start somwhere, in the future we could have hover roads and cars, and all sorts, but people have to experiment with technology to figure out its capabilities

 

It might not even have consumer application, what about Medical/scientific use? like a hospital stretcher that hovers so as to not cause discomfort to the patient, or a way of moving around samples in a lab without knocking things (just random off the top of my head examples)

There are actual trains that uses this technology in large scale, and there are experimental areas where they are experimenting with this technology

 

The problem is that it is a very very very expensive ( £6300) for a board, that has a rather limited(=eg you must build it for yourself that is £££) unless you live next to one of the park made in the world, it is more a gimmick than true technical innovation. and while a board that can support a human weight cost up to £6000, you can imagine how much extra would it cost for hospital beds instead of 4 legs over the horrible cost of the bed itself.

 

Technology must move on and I am sure someone will reinvent the wheel in a usable form, but will this be it... I guess not

[ShadowCaptain]

There are actual trains that uses this technology in large scale, and there are experimental areas where they are experimenting with this technology

 

The problem is that it is a very very very expensive ( £6300) for a board, that has a rather limited(=eg you must build it for yourself that is £££) unless you live next to one of the park made in the world, it is more a gimmick than true technical innovation. and while a board that can support a human weight cost up to £6000, you can imagine how much extra would it cost for hospital beds instead of 4 legs over the horrible cost of the bed itself.

 

Technology must move on and I am sure someone will reinvent the wheel in a usable form, but will this be it... I guess not

 

The board does not actually cost £6300,  I assume that it is actually the amount they are asking for for you to directly fund their R&D, I can guarantee the material cost is probably more like £300-£1000, it is a small company, with no manufacturing plants etc etc, 

 

Its a kickstarter, the price is there for you to help kickstart their company hence the prices are higher than a retail unit. Look at Google Glass, its  $1500 to buy get ina  teardown it was discovered that it only costs $80 to build an manufacture... what you are paying for, is for googles research and development into glass as a project

 

Its like go and R&D and build your own custom laptop, it bet it costs you £100k to get it fabricated built and tested, but you can buy one from Currys for £400

 

It is also a luxury device, and they are charging for it knowing the cool factor will make them lots of money

[garmada]

Yeah, its a toy... thats why they have made a hoverboard and hover park... to play with

 

but technology has to start somwhere, in the future we could have hover roads and cars, and all sorts, but people have to experiment with technology to figure out its capabilities

 

It might not even have consumer application, what about Medical/scientific use? like a hospital stretcher that hovers so as to not cause discomfort to the patient, or a way of moving around samples in a lab without knocking things (just random off the top of my head examples)

 

People work with this technology but it is too expensive and complicated. For medical/science use this tech is too expensive, better use self balancing technology, look on self balancing cube Cubli (Youtube Link), you could use this for medical use and keep things or people in any position you want without big energy/material usage.

[ShadowCaptain]

People work with this technology but it is too expensive and complicated. For medical/science use this tech is too expensive, better use self balancing technology, look on self balancing cube Cubli (Youtube Link), you could use this for medical use and keep things or people in any position you want without big energy/material usage.

 

Thats awesome

 

My example was just something I made up, as they say on their page, the point is the useage that we have not through about yet, maybe somebody has an absolutely revolutionary use for this tecnology

 

maybe they dont... I still think its cool to have a freaking hoverboard, and if they were say £2000 I would totally buy one and visit the hoverpark

[garmada]

For this kind of money I would more like to invest in Real racing Sim. I tried this simulator couple times in shopping mall and it is really awesome, from video you can see how it works but it is hard to describe, it simulate gravity force pretty accurately. RRS use hydraulic system to simulate turning, breaking, Acceleration and even bumps on road and if you crash you really feel it. I would like to see this SIM with oculus rift (nerdgasm).

 

[juretrn]

I don't have any sound right now, so maybe this has been answered in the video...

 

But doesn't this effect only work on superconducting surfaces?

[ItsComrade]

What? we could have like hover cars and hover bikes! This is just as revolutionary as the wheel

 

But electromagnetic levitation isn't new at all. It would require so much infrastructure to make feasible. I don't see hover technology being useful except maybe in maglevs or the like. 

[ShadowCaptain]

I don't have any sound right now, so maybe this has been answered in the video...

 

But doesn't this effect only work on superconducting surfaces?

 

Correct currently it only works on a special surface, but they are finding ways to make it work over all surfaces

But electromagnetic levitation isn't new at all. It would require so much infrastructure to make feasible. I don't see hover technology being useful except maybe in maglevs or the like. 

 

Sure its not new, but it has never been used in this manner, and anything that can get people excited about tech is good in my eyes

[ItsComrade]

Correct currently it only works on a special surface, but they are finding ways to make it work over all surfaces

 

Sure its not new, but it has never been used in this manner, and anything that can get people excited about tech is good in my eyes

 

Maglev trains use it. How is this very different?

[ShadowCaptain]

Maglev trains use it. How is this very different?

 

This works on a much smaller scale