HUVr - The Future has arrived. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Astroplio
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 04, 2014, 09:09:44 pm
content: Hello guys, just a heads up,HUVr --- The Future has arrived.http://huvrtech.com/Now, do you happen to know anyone who would like such a board? Hmm...George

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 04, 2014, 10:17:08 pm
content: http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/hoverboard.asp

author: Astroplio
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 04, 2014, 10:58:14 pm
content: Obviously a fake, as pointed out, now it remains to be seen what happens in December 2014.Surely this is some kind of publicity stunt.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 01:10:36 am
content: Owned by none other than FUTURE MEDIA ARCHITECTS.This is one of those attempts at a grass roots viral campaign/internal portal. This company buys memorable names, never to sell (they have NEVER sold one of over 120,000 domains they own apparently) but to build internet communities/followings/homepages etc.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Media_Architects

author: photonpunk
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 01:46:26 am
content: My boss showed me this today and was convinced that hoverboards were real.If this technology existed, I'm sure they would market it to teenage skateboards first. Not the government or auto industries or anything. Why make billions when you could make a million.

author: kolonelkadat
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 01:48:25 am
content: Quote from: Astroplio on March 04, 2014, 10:58:14 pmthats easy. the domain expiresRegistrar Registration Expiration Date: 2014-11-25T20:43:48-07:00

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 05:18:23 am
content: Must have cost a fortune to get all those names involved. pretty well done though.

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 06:53:24 am
content: The whole thing is a goof. Christopher Loyd would not be doing it otherwise. Why would they look like they were painted in 1989 if it were not a goof?

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 08:55:53 am
content: Apart from no one yet understands or identified exactly what gravity is it makes producing anti-gravity highly unlikely if not impossible, DARPA would snaffle the technology and stop wasting time on mechanical walking dogs. The main problem would be getting enough power to not only lift a person but to maintain that lift for a reasonable time.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 09:47:00 am
content: Anti gravity already exists. Ionic air currents around high voltages can lift a few grams.So just scale it up, right?My guess, a viral campaign for a BTTF TV show, spin off, etc

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 10:05:13 am
content: Even this thing exist, the video shows they just don't understand law of kinetic energy, and worst, just watch again, it was propelled by one foot that is just "swinging" in the mid air and not even touching the ground.

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 11:42:42 am
content: If this hover board technology would be real, we would newer see it in public. Military would take it and find all sort of militaristic uses for it...

author: Kaptein QK
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 11:56:04 am
content: Quote from: tom66 on March 05, 2014, 09:47:00 amThis is no different than a helicopter.

author: mos6502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 12:03:38 pm
content: Jump to 5:15.

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 04:03:01 pm
content: Copter Board! Don't fall. The jillions of tiny plastic propellers will mess you up big time! Runs 3 seconds on a charge!

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 05:03:05 pm
content: Even if it was possible, how exactly would stepping your foot in thin air as shown in make you move forward..?Thrust -vectoring based on foot gesture recognition seems a poor second to Segway-style lean-and-go.

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 07:50:43 pm
content: solid propellant hover board! Just swat away from anything other than concrete flooring and you should be good.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2014, 09:49:11 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on March 05, 2014, 09:47:00 amThat is not anti-gravity. it is not producing anti gravity waves or gravitons or whatever gravity and anti-gravity is. It is just another form of jet propulsion like an ion rocket motor.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2014, 11:00:27 am
content: It's always amazing (and sad) how many people can't tell the difference between reality and total technological impossibility. A little ignorance of physics goes a long way."We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."-- William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence. An observation by the late Director at his first staff meeting in 1981.Recent Snowden revelations that the government absolutely does employ shills to disrupt web discussion and destroy meaningful online public debate, puts that quote in a whole new light. (Well actually I've known for a few years that they do, but it helps to have a solid reference to stick up the nostrils of folks who are fond of using the phrase 'tinfoil hat'.)Are viral marketing rubbish like this mag-lev skateboard just more random stupidity, or are they part of a deliberate program of thought-jamming?A few years ago I'd have said the former. Now not so sure.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2014, 12:14:43 pm
content: Very fake. you can see the harness in this shot.….If you were to attempt to do something like a hoverboard, but not as extreme, how would you do it?- you could use magnetic levitation, but you'd need a metal floor and you've got a square-law effect so you're needing tons of power to go anywhere.- you could use a micro turbine - but that's basically a helicopter/chinook. (Not sure this would work with you standing on top of it - would need to suck in air from edges of board and blow it down.)- you could use ultrasonic levitation? (like Mike demoed) but again you need tons of power to levitate tiny things so it's not exactly practical.The odd thing is, physics wise, you don't need much power to levitate things: one watt to suspend a hummingbird, for example.http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29405/amount-of-energy-required-to-hover

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2014, 12:21:36 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on March 06, 2014, 11:00:27 amYou don't actually believe this quote is real do you?The "Daily Paul" andsome nutty dude's websitedon't count as citations.

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 06, 2014, 12:57:26 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on March 06, 2014, 12:21:36 pmHerunsa 'nutty dudes' website

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2014, 01:06:27 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on March 06, 2014, 12:14:43 pmA hummingbird needs a lot lower speed of the downward air than the hoverboard and energy increases squared with that speed.So the way to do it is to make the board larger, much larger.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2014, 01:18:53 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on March 06, 2014, 12:14:43 pmNicely spotted. But why bother? The thing is impossible.** Lacking actual anti-grav technology, which we supposedly don't have.QuoteYou need reaction mass, and power to blast it out. LIKE THIS!...Oh, and don't forget the hand-held thrustors for stability and steering.Petrol power does it again.

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2014, 10:21:53 am
content: I like hot air as a reaction massThey just need to strap this engine under their board and Bob's your uncle !https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bj26RKNipQA#t=37

author: deth502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2014, 03:38:04 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 05, 2014, 05:18:23 amthe "funny or die" website was behind it. idk what their deal is, or what the draw is, but they always have shit with big celeb cameos in them. i really doubt they pay them that much.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2014, 03:51:33 pm
content: Quote from: mos6502 on March 05, 2014, 12:03:38 pmlol, that's pretty good. "You come up with the science"

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2014, 04:42:33 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on March 05, 2014, 09:47:00 amReminds me this demonstration

author: Rasz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2014, 06:10:40 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on March 06, 2014, 01:18:53 pmHOLY SHIT this is amazing, and so simple, its just an attachment to jetskiBrilliant design.aaaand of course some US retard in patent office rubber stamped it and jetlev sued flyboard :/http://www.x-jetpacks.com/patents/

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2014, 01:46:33 am
content: Dang, they almost fooled me too. Nice catch with the crane.However, on the talk of skateboards, there is onewheel.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/4422853/onewheel-the-self-balancing-electric-skateboardI'd consider buying one if it weren't for the range. On the other hand, I guess there isn't much room for mounting batteries to the thing.

author: Dave Turner
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2014, 09:19:18 pm
content: our current knowledge of physics and may always be so!However, whenever the best brains in the world state that they have either proven something impossible, or that they know X to be true then later research or discovery has eventually either disproved or reasonably cast doubt on the conventional viewpoint.The adage that, "to a relatively primitive society the technology of an advanced society is indistinguishable from magic", is true! Despite all our learning, Einstein, Hawkings et al we may still find that we have it wrong.Nevertheless engineers have to work within accepted doctrine for practicality and to avoid being sued; not that serendipity doesn't have a place.Dream on - If we don't we stagnate.