Tag: Hoverboard

French Inventor Flies Over English Channel On A Self Made Hoverboard

Scientists and inventors from around the globe have been working to develop new forms of transportation that include the likes of electric cars and Hyperloop One.

Franky Zapata flying over the English Channel

Frank Zapata, an inventor hailing from France had developed a Flyboard which is essentially a jet-powered hoverboard. The inventor was previously seen riding the Flyboard a couple of stories high which is nothing short of remarkable.

However, on the 4th of August, 2019, he marked a revolutionary feat as he was able to successfully fly over the English Channel which is 21 miles long. The inventor began his journey from Sangatte, France and landed in England about 20 minutes later.

While airborne, the inventor was able to reach speeds of upto 106 miles per hour. However, the whole journey was not covered in a single flight session.

Noteworthy, the inventor had to make a pit stop halfway in order to refuel. As he could only carry fuel worth 10 minutes of flight.

Apart from inventing the Flyboard Air, Franky Zapata had previously invented the similar machine which goes airborne by propelling water out of high-pressure water jets.

Except for Zapata, an English inventor named Richard Browning has also developed jet-powered personal transportation that uses six turbo engines.

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To sum it up, the technology is years away from commercial availability, nonetheless, this is a worthwhile achievement in the field of personal transportation which will see rapid growth in the coming future.

What are your thoughts on the Flyboard? Does the technology excite you? Let us know in the comments below.

August 5, 2019
Watch the Video of This Epic Hoverboard Fire Test Fail

Humans may have mastered technology enough to create humanoid robots (and also freak themselves out in the process with the threat of Artificial Intelligence taking over the world). But no matter how advanced we might be on the tech-front, there is still more than just a little tweaking that our gadgets require right now. The hoverboard fire test below would serve to emphasise our point.

https://youtu.be/825cEptCWc4

The video looks so painful that adult supervision is recommended even just for watching it. As the hoverboard beautifully goes up in flames, it justifies the recent hoverboard scare which had led Amazon to take the product off its website.

This pretty, little hoverboard catches fire while charging and spews flames in all directions as a result of over-heating. Watch it burn like a firecracker in the video and let us know if you still think this previously cool piece of tech is still cool enough.

February 13, 2016
The Future is Here with the New Hendo Hoverboard

Yesterday was Back to the Future Day around the world. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, Back to the Future Day comes only once a lifetime, and that was on 21st October, 2015. This day is celebrated because in 1989’s Back to the Future II film, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel 26 years to the future and land on October 21st, 2015. So naturally, fans of the film around the world were excited to have finally reached the ‘future’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwX5NtF530

One of the things that makes the day so exciting is that in the movie, the 2015 future had a hoard of futuristic technology like self-tying shoes, hoverboard, artificial intelligence and all that jazz. And what’s more exciting is that the movie got most of the predictions right.

We celebrated the day in our own way as well by listing 6 techs that the movie predicted correctly about 2015. Companies like Nike were also paying homage to the cult franchise by launching self-tying shoes that were seen in the movie. But no Back to the Future Day is complete without a hoverboard. So the makers behind the Hendo overboard also joined the celebration with their newest version of the hoverboard.

Arx Pax teased new details about the hoverboard last week, like better battery life, USB connectivity, stronger hover engines, and a safety kill switch.The new design looks quite spectacular and in keeping with the future.

The skateboard deck sits on traditional skateboard trucks, which is also where four hover engines connect to the main body. This will help riders shift their weight around much like a traditional skateboard. Another cool piece of information is that the new hoverboard is designed by none other than pro-skater Tony Hawk.

Just to be clear, none of the Hendo Hoverboards run on the street. The magnets below the board need a copper flooring to repel off in order to hover. So you can push off and hover as as long as there is a copper runway. But it’s a start.

The new hoverboard will first go to Kickstarter backers who pledged $10,000 to the company last year. Are Pax has said that the backers were companies who wish to open hoverboard parks of their own. The company has also stated that the hover boards won’t be consumer ready but there has been great progress in the hovering technology that would even make Marty proud. And it does bring the dream of owning your own overboard closer than ever.

October 22, 2015