Should have been wearing a green suit and carrying orange hand grenades while cackling evilly! ;)

Seriously, that is pretty cool.

Pardon my skepticism.

I've goggled, and found no other reference to hoverboarding except those on the water..Odd.

This is cool, but 250hp *4 = 1,000 hp to fly 1.5 miles with jet engines and kerosene? What has been done here is solve a controls problem. There is no physics or significant breakthrough engineering here. USAF did this in the 1960s.
1950s, sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aX7U...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvp8L...

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Since when is "a benefit to humanity" an Objective moral standard? It's up there with the undefinable, subjective "the greatest good for the greatest number."

Thanks, Scott. Amazing video. Reminds me of Francisco steering the speedboat like an arrow in Atlas, I, 5.

Great way to get to work...fly over all the traffic.

I think this is fake. Where is the power source to provide such lift? Why is it over water? Is that significant?

I have a suspicion that this is a touched up compilation of a few different things, one of which is hydro hoverboarding.

Ok. Count me amongst the officially amazed.

Jan

Guinness appears to think it was real:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/n...

A great example of engineering and thinking in terms of "what if" vs "why we can't". Now to get some range and you could use it to commute and travel short trips.

Jules Verne to that. The fiction of HG Wells remains a bit tall tale stretched with such novels as The Time Machine and the weird civilization found in First Men IN The Moon, but he got it right with his The Land Ironclads story before the Brits invented tanks.
I've read how Star Trek's hand communicator inspired the cell phone.
Now if we can only learn to beam people up without having them turn into a fly.

Is this real? Does anyone have info indicating that this is not just a gif? What is the technology?

The turns look like the Laws of Physics are being dissed; the scenes with both the flier (at the very top of the screen) and the jet skis in them look suspicious.

Jan

Who gives a crap if it's a benefit to humanity?

I finally agree with you on something :)

science fiction movies are not so fictional after all.

Its potentially very unsafe in its current form. Doesnt mean it could never work. Maybe anti-gravity technology would take some of the danger out of it.

It looks cool, BUT

It cant give you much flying time without running out of some sort of currently available fuel. Needs a more powerful fuel.

I can see why he is flying over WATER !!! Unexpected landings due to many factors could be interesting over land.

Its definitely the new direction in hoverboards, though. It would need some sort of ejection "seat" technology with a good parachute.

Maybe anti gravity technology would make it a bit more practical and safe.

Sooo cool

Most major new inventions are a rich man's toys for a long time, usually decades, before they become mass marketable.

Consider the mobile phone. As a kid in 1966 I met somebody's uncle who had one once. The phone cost more than the Cadillac it was installed in.

Then there were the home computers of the 1970s. The Imsai had a whole 8K of memory. It took up the space of three 4-drawer file cabinets, plus a large desktop screen and keyboard, drew hundreds of amps of power, and cost about $30k in an era when you could buy a nice house for $35k.

...and I suppose you would volunteer to decide what "benefits humanity?"

Reminds old dino of the hover board in a Back To The Future movie.

It is waaaay cool.
However, in my case, I'd need a seat, a safety belt, a steering wheel and two assistants. But if anyone in the Gulch who thinks he or she can do it, you shouldn't wait a minute to see if you can try it.

Try to imagine a closed track race with these things. It would make the Indy 500 look tame.