Hendo Hoverboard
World's first REAL hoverboard (pre-launch)
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Bram Kanstein (@bramk)

Hendo Hoverboard - World's first REAL hoverboard (pre-launch)

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While the Hendo hoverboard is primarily intended to be human-driven, the technology that gives it stability can also be used to drive it via remote control by altering the projected force on the surface underneath it. Right now we use commonly available metals in simple sheets to give the hoverboard “flight”, but we are working on new compounds and new configurations to maximize our technology and minimize costs.

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Emiel Janson
This is cool!
Chris Gulczynski
... and the delivery date is Oct. 21 2015. Aside from a flying Delorean, this is the coolest thing I could hope for.
tom meagher
@xtopherpaul Speaking of the Delorean, its too bad this hover board was not real! http://huvrtech.com The video is great and they got @MCuban, @TonyHawk, Christopher Lloyd to support it:
Aaron Batalion
I got excited, until I read the surface below must be ferromagnetic. Maybe combine this and Solar Roadways (https://www.indiegogo.com/projec...) and we have a pretty fun toy for the real world. Otherwise it's pretty close to a theme park ride. I still want to ride one. :)
Eric Willis
Wow. This is super awesome. Just watched the video... great hunt @bramk
Rod Austin
Pretty slick! Hopefully they can deliver once funded.
Dane Lyons
I'm much more interested in the Whitebox developer kit. Sure a hoverboard would be fun but I think there is a lot of utility in little white hover cubes.
Dane Lyons
It would be awesome to design a physical RTS game with 2 opposing cube forces. Each cube has 2 vulnerable edges and 2 attack edges. If one of your cubes touches an attack edge to an opponents vulnerable edge, that cube is destroyed and removes itself from the field. Also, to make things a little less easy, if one of your cubes vulnerable edge touches another one of your cubes vulnerable edges, they are both destroyed. This prevents walling. Cubes could be controlled by mobile phones but I think it would be more interesting if you had to preprogram cube behavior and the only thing you could do during the even is toggle between scripts that effect all of your cubes.
Ross Rojek
@duilen You could use it for a game of RoboRally with moving robots.
Erik Torenberg
Bram - you are a hunter among hunters. we had a levitating speaker last month - http://www.producthunt.com/posts... what products will levitate next?
Joshua Dance
Looks awesome, but I think in real life kind of underwhelming? It only works on metal. You can't control your direction. A skateboard rolls only forward and back and tilting gets you side to side directional control. The Hendo glides in any direction, tilting won't provide much control. Maybe a small rocket pack to control?
Alex Chuang
This is pretty friggin awesome. I can see multiple applications in supply chain + logistics. There could also be programmable paths so items can self organize in a space.
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