First real $20k hoverboard can fly 6 mins & takes 6 hours to recharge

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While Arx Pax is busy making a hoverboard that works with magnets, and everyone else is busy making "hoverboards" that work with wheels, a company called ArcaSpace is working off an idea that you probably had when you were knee-high to a grasshopper. "What if we just pointed a whole bunch of fans at the ground and flew that way?" Well now you can. 

Building on the ingenuity of pre-pre-pre-teens everywhere, ArcaSpace's hoverboard fires out 430 pounds of thrust using 36 battery-powered electric fans that offer some six minutes of flight between charges. It's not quite that simple though; ArcaSpace says it also has some extra stabilization tech to keep the thing from going totally haywire, but nothing that looks like it'd let you actually steer. 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a18734/arcaspace-fan-powered-hoverboard-20000-dollars/

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Really slightly smaller than a mattress . . . 

 

But... it's a start, right?

 

 

[MonsterOfficial 11,079]

eh, I'm just gonna wait 10 more years 

[SlayLin 1,557]

Can fly 6 mins.... but 6 hours to recharge.

[RAMROD 117,035]

Gonna wait til the first usable version are sold for public.

This prototype is too much .

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4 minutes ago, Neon Angel said:

Can fly 6 mins.... but 6 hours to recharge.

YASS. Live your dream for 6 mins then do it all over again 6 hours later. 

It's ONLY 20k $.

[Edonis 28,974]

Volantis' impact. When will your fav? 

[Chicka 2,385]

in the video they all talk like it's something so profound but they know it's just an expensive board with fans in it

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

If VOLANTIS didn't happen then this won't. 

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1 hour ago, Edonis said:

Volantis' impact. When will your fav? 

Gaga should sue tbh. 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

Gaga better buy one. Volantis 2.0  

[ShockPop 7,747]

Stick a rug and a monkey on it and you're Aladdin.