Tuesday, February 21, 2017

BLOG 4 TECHNOLOGY

Hoverboard 


  • Fictional levitating board used for personal transportation.
  • It was first described by author M. K. Joseph in 1967.
  • It was created by Robert Zemeckis.
  • It was popularized by the Back to the Future film franchise.
  • The Hoverboard concept has been used by many authors in various forms of media.



                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4yiO1Cmv4

A hoverboard (or hover board) is a fictional levitating board used for personal transportation, first described by author M. K. Joseph in 1967 and popularized by the Back to the Future  film franchise. Hoverboards are generally depicted as resembling a skateboard without wheels. During the 1990s there were rumors, fueled by director Robert Zemeckis that hoverboards were in fact real, but not marketed because they were deemed too dangerous by parents' groups. These rumors have been conclusively debunked. The hoverboard concept has been used by many authors in various forms of media.

Guinness World Records recognizes the term hoverboard to include autonomously powered personal levitators. In May 2015, the Romania-born Canadian inventor Cătălin Alexandru Duru set a Guinness World Record by travelling a distance of 275.9 m (302 yd) at heights up to 5 m (16 ft) over a lake, on an autonomously powered hoverboard of his own design. On April 30, 2016, Guinness World Records recognized a new record of 2,252.4 m. The Flyboard Air was powered by jet engine propulsion, and its use allowed Franky Zapata, in Sausset-les-Pins, France to beat the previous record by nearly 2 km. Another method of achieving self-levitation is superconductivity, used by the Slide  hoverboard.

Price


It's impossible to say how much a real hoverboard, like the one seen in Back to the Future II, costs because none are currently commercially available. On the other hand, the prices for scooters calling themselves hoverboards can start from as little as $300. Prices of current popular models: IO Hawk $499.99.


        According to: http://selfbalancingreviews.com/hoverboard-prices/

Review


Hoverboard is one of the coolest technology especially for the teenagers. It is easy to function and is not at all complicated. I've used a Hoverboard once and I thought that it was super fun. These days it is very difficult to find a technology that is as cool and easy as this one. Therefore, I think Hoverboard is a nice technolgy and I would definitely like to use it again. 

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