Real-Life Hoverboard Floats in the Air, Doesn't Do Much Else

Now if they would only invent the time machine! I NEED A TIME MACHINE!!!!!

Cool! They should make furniture that hovers so that we could vacuum underneath it with no problem. It would also be able to move easily so you could change up the room whenever you want. It wouldn't hover while your sitting on it though. Just when you would need it to - press a button on a remote and *poof* it hovers! lol

Furniture that hovers?...C'mon, get real...they will invent self vacuuming carpet before we ever see floating furniture!...Sheesh!

What about a "Hover bed"...Think of the comfort!

A hoverboard would use a powerful energy source like one in a backpack or a small injection reactor to generate the double-field motive system. The outer field would displace the electromagnetic field of the earth and also ionize the air and surfaces while the inner field would repel against the outer field and levitate the board. If a person falls off of the board which will levitate between one centimeter to ten centimeters above a surface, the board will turn off the fields and fall to the ground.

The two basic types of hoverboards would be the regular and "powered" boards. The regular ones would be like regular skateboards only with adouble-field motive systems and not wheels. At least cracks in the sidewalks or potholes on roads would be so rough. The powered ones would be either the "continued mometum" type that will keep traveling at the speed the rider reaches on his final push-off or the "speed controlled" ones that will be able to glide forward at between 3 mph and 120 mph for those with foot restraints so that the rider doesn't fall off. If an injection reactor is used to generate the fields, a person could ride from the United States to England if he is willing to stand for around 30 hours. At least the speed controlled ones will be able to brake just by dialing back the speed to zero. It won't be a sudden stop or else the rider may be thrown off of the board.

Water can be ionized to produce a surface to levitate above. That is why the boards in the movie would have to glide above the water as they did if the boards were functional. In the future, hoverboards will be expensive if they use reactors. The backpack energy supply boards will be much less expensive. But unless the powerpack is much more powerful than the ones available today, the range might be 2 to 12 hours on a charge, depending on the speed of the board. The nukes may cost more than a luxury sports car and be half as fast as they are. But they will allow riders to glide around the world. The ones with backpacks may cost less than $2000 which is expensive. But for an afternoon of levitated fun and recharging times as fast as five minutes if flywheel storage systems are used, hoverboards will be worth the price. In fact, hoverboard races will be televised in the future once they achieve the higher speeds. The riders will have to have helmets and "scrape suits" that will protect them if they fall from their boards or collide with others and thewalls.

I don't think any of the ideas mentioned in the comments are practical or will work for personal use. Mostly because of cost and weight if the principles argued will even work. Nuclear power is out of the picture for reasons that should be ovbious. If I'm not mistaken, we already have a non-nuclear commercial application operating at Disney World to transport visitors between hotels, from hotel to Welcome Center, and from the parking lot to the Welcome Center / Hotels. It's smooth, fast and quiet. I love it.

I feel slightly smarter after reading Ricks comment :D

Oh just to get it out of the way (cause you know its coming!)

We would HAVE hoverboards now if it wasn't for Obama and his horrible healthcare bill!

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