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  • Driving Over Water Hazards: A Hovercraft Golf Cart
    April 2, 2013
    This is Bubba's Hover, a collaboration between pro golfer Bubba Watson and Oakley, and allegedly the world's first hovercraft golf cart. I find it hard to believe some other rich golfer hasn't zipped down the fairway in a hovercraft already which is why I looked it up on Youtu... / Continue →
  • Don't Need, Still Want: A Levitating Computer Mouse
    March 5, 2013
    This is 'The Bat', a magnetically levitating computer mouse designed by KIBARDINDESIGN. It does everything a regular mouse does plus levitates and probably cost 100x more. Still -- rich people. Hey Bill, have you seen my new hover-mouse? 'No Mike, I haven't. But why the f*... / Continue →
  • Amateur Astronomer Captures Video Of Hovering UFO
    October 25, 2012
    Seen here looking nothing like the alien spacecraft that comes to beam me up for my annual enema, the UFO spotted by amateur Kentucky astronomer Allen Epling is seen hovering in the sky. I think it might just be a plastic bag. According to CBS affiliate WYMT-TV, Epling, pictu... / Continue →
  • Move Over, Water Jetpacks!: Water Hoverbike Thingies
    June 13, 2012
    These are Jetovators. Jetovators are like the water-jetpacks we've seen in the past, except you ride them like a motorcycle. You know, because some guys like to feel that power between their legs. Personally, I'm happy with the feeling of my penis ping-ponging back and forth... / Continue →
  • Hover Anything That Weighs Less Than 12-Ounces!
    December 7, 2011
    In other hover-news, this is the $100 Levitron Revolution. It can levitate any object that fits on its hoverdisk and weighs less than 12-ounces. How? Magic magnets WIZAAAAAARDZ! According to the manufacturers, "The Levitron automatically compensates for changes in weight by... / Continue →
  • What Do You Think You Are, A Helicopter?!: Watch An Airbus A330 'Hovering' In Midair
    November 10, 2011
    This is a video from France of a 230-ton Airbus A330 "hovering" in midair. Because if there's one thing that's terrifying to watch from a window-seat, it's the plane not moving. Jk jk, it's a wing breaking off, but still. The phenomenon has an easy explanation: the Airbus ... / Continue →
  • We're So Screwed: Quadricopters Now Capable Of Picking Up, Carrying Bodies
    July 13, 2010
    Sure it may look like a couple boards nailed together into a T, but just imagine if it were a human body. Pretty creepy huh? What do you mean you're having trouble imagining it's a body? I swear, you have no imagination. You having lost your childlike innocence forever and ... / Continue →
  • Hoversharks: Fill The Oceans With Concrete!
    July 7, 2010
    Between the oil spills and hoversharks, I propose we go ahead fill the oceans with concrete. Not only will we never have to worry about tsunamis, but -- OMG, I JUST SOLVED THE OVERCROWDING PROBLEM! There, uh, was a population overcrowding problem, right? Who cares, I'm walki... / Continue →
  • But Can It Go 88MPH? A DeLorean Hovercraft
    July 1, 2010
    This is a DeLorean hovercraft being built by Matthew Riese of San Francisco. Why build a DeLorean hovercraft? *facepalm* Get out of here for even asking that. I'm serious -- I can't look at you right now. If you're like me, when you saw the flying Delorean in Back to the Fu... / Continue →
  • Artist Creates Real-Life BTTF2 Hoverboard
    May 28, 2010
    French artist Nils Guadagnin went and made a replica of the hoverboard from Back to the Future II that actually hovers. Future technology! Black magic. Integrated into the board and the plinth is an electromagnetic system which levitates the board. A laser system stabilises ... / Continue →