Anti-Gravity is a really misused term. Watch the MythBusters epp on anti-gravity machines. Its hog wash. Nothing actually reverses gravity, it just fights/works with it for a period of time.

Hoshnasi

For some odd reason I was thinking that this was some uber NASA experiment where they discovered a way to repel gravity (as a geodisist at Fermilab has always been speculating that it shouldn't be long now about 10 yrs ago... if I remember correctly). Well... at least those guys did discover that neutrinos have mass (fermilab, not the toy car makers).

Of course we're just talking about air and a toy... arrggghh...

AllThingsWireless

those things are going to sell like 50mph hovering hotcakes. suhweet.

waynoworlater

@trc202: The music is from Wipeout Pulse on the PSP. The whole soundtrack is quite good. I also seems like they modeled the advert off Wipeout Pulse. The way the ships move about is very similar and there were a few scenes that looked like the came right from the game.

spyguy99

[www.axonracing.com]

Dygear

Is it bad that I was waiting for it to be run over?

zed0

is it sad that i'm more interested in the music than the car?

trc202

Wheels cause friction with the ground. Drag and friction will still happen because of the atmosphere. See what I did there? You can't touch this.

dylanwho

Original commercial from tyco:

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Navin R Johnson

WHAT? $250?!? Tyco made one of these like 15 years ago for like $40. Here's a comical video of a one:

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Navin R Johnson

Simply awesome! Do want

Rexter

@aquaosx: Don't be such a buzzkill, dude! It's real life F-Zero!

Griffehpoo

Wow. Imagine a full size version of this.

nosauten

Show me your moves!

Falcon! PAAANCH!!!

Griffehpoo

I guess by "first" they mean the first remote controlled hovercraft to be called an "anti-gravity racer."

aquaosx

Do Want!!!
I love that drift down the ramp.

UltimateIdiot

I wonder why he avoided the sewer grate like that.

Highlight of the clip: off the ramp, into the pavement, dead stop. Friction? What friction?

Oh, and @Navin R Johnson: it's cooler than the Typhoon because it's not amphibious. Yes, in this case, less is more. It doesn't bring back repressed Discovery Channel memories of the Bayou.

svnt

@Griffehpoo:

ezman

YAy!!! just in time for my birthday!!!
BTW, how did they get that green video player from youtube?

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

Is anyone else reminded of the original F-Zero for SNES?! Seems like the same principle, and the vehicle shape is very reminiscent.

Camaro02

@svnt: i would say because its a very fancy hover craft, there isnt enough solid surface area on the grate to keep the lift on the vehicle.

stryker1800

@trc202: @spyguy99: It sounds a lot like Vitalic.

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FredicvsMaximvs

I plan on buying one and shortly thereafter I will make all my friends and family refer to me a Captain Falcon...

Or maybe not...

A man can dream can't he?!? :)

whiteknight89

Mason - Exceeder is the song..

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xyzface

I thought this was the new knight rider.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

Music's also from this:

[video.google.com]

lakiolen

Finally proof that alien technology is being funneled into consumer products, the first was the iPhone,

Justapspfan

I do not trust, it not the truth

shizik76

It's a hovercraft... right?

It's still awesome... no need to dress it up by calling it an anti-gravity car.

MichaelScrip

yeah since when is a hover-craft a crazy newfangled anti-gravity car?

jcraig

Hmmm...this hovercraft got a lot less cool when I realized that it wasn't full sized...

kamsolusar

i have the tyco one, its pretty slow on ground, hope this is a little zippier.

roflwaffles

I have 2 have one!!!

shanzi

Can this go over water? Hovercraft can.

pri_them2

@shanzi: You can haz grammar 2!!!!!111!!!!!!

And maybe I'm missing something, but as others have already stated...isn't this essentially a hovercraft? Wake me when we have actual anti-grav mechanisms. Like Blade Runner or Star Wars.

jayhawk11

more f zero than wipeout but it's a start, they just need to make it hover higher so it can land better from jumps

Gonzie

My whole body is anti-gravity.

scarbrtj

I addition the above the video the song its pretty good ;~)

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SyphonFilter

1. The music is "Mason vs. Princess Superstar - Perfect"

2. As others have stated - it's a hovercraft.

SyphonFilter

Ducted fans aren't the solution. We need a true eletrically induced anti-gravity for hover cars and we need it stat.

GeekyNerdGuy

Will it go over water???

venomous_duck41

Well I was tempted to pre order, even if it is just a new take on the ol' fan-powered hovercraft, seeing its performance on normal streets was enough to make me WANT.

However, a "pre-order" page that makes me paypal the full amount to a company with little to no information outside of that video is not my idea of a "safe" thing to do.

Oh, and the $249 is the "receiver-ready" version, so you need to supply your own radio. I already have one so that's not a big deal... but if it IS just a block of foam with a motor and a fan, I'm not dropping $249 on it.

tayaya

@dylanwho: Beat me to it... Well said.

bpapa9013

SCAM!!!

Ariel_Wollinger

"The car is also damn near indestructible with a body made out of lexan polycarbonate resin thermoplastic on a polyethylene foam base."

Yea, that's what they said about the Traxxas REVO. I broke that one 37 seconds after the motor was broke in. Give me one, I'll have it broken in ways they could never imagine in no time!

Froggmann

And it turns on a dime. It doesn't actually change direction, but it turns really fast.

stonefry

Advanced polycarbonate resin... like they use in Nalgene bottles, and various other cheap clear plastic crap. Talk about marketing spewing out a bunch of outlandish claims.

Adam

A good single brushless system will cost you about $110-$140. To get the 50mph you wil need a second motor for aroung $60 if your controller can handle a second moter. If not, then it is another $110-$140 Don't forget the radio system. A 2.4gHz radio wil cost another $225. Total cost about $600-$780! (The preorder price is $275)

geeman

@bpapa9013: Thanks, man. ZERO FRICTION.

dylanwho

I can't wait to strap my iphone to it and dyno test it!

JEmlay

I made this product 5 years ago. It was called Z-Craft and it was the first 6 inch R/C hovercraft. For $29.00.

Here is the URL from my dev server that has the archived website from the now defunct company.
[www.atomictoys.com]

Worked just as well as this one.
SO this is jsut a rehash. Certainlynot worth $25. I made them for $7.50 cost out of China.

aobjects

@nosauten:
Here's your full-size HOVERCRAFT:
[www.myhovercraft.co.uk]

LOL: Anti-Gravity, those marketers/ad guys are hard at work!

booshpilot

Great, except it's, umm, not anti-gravity. Can you smell false advertising lawsuit?

FritzLaurel

Well I e-mailed the address on the site just to see if they responded at all, and was surprised to get a very timely (within the hour) response to my questions about exactly what one is getting when they pre-order one of these items (or buy one once they're actually shipping, as I plan to do).

Basically you get the racer itself, fully assembled, with motors and servos already installed. You need to provide a radio receiver and transmitter, and a battery pack.

For $299 they'll give you the racer and a lipo battery and charger, but you still need to provide radio stuff. This is the route I plan to take as I have plenty of radios already.

Mine are only 2 Channel, but I noticed their full kit will include a 3-channel radio. They did this because they couldn't find any 2 Channel 2.4GHz radios, and wanted the frequency bandwidth and performance of a 2.4GHz system. Only 2 channels are needed for operation of the Razorback.

I definitely plan on grabbing one of these.

tayaya

@Hoshnasi: That show is retarded. Besides, nobody's trying to actually fool you into believing this thing actually uses some sort "anti-gravity" technology. That you even had to come out and say that reveals a lot about you. Don't even get me started on making assumptions about what's possible based on modern physics (we don't know shit).

scott_m

That tish is bassad! My only concerns are: what's the range of the radio, and how am I gonna keep up with it?

scott_m

Dual BL motors? Screw that. I'll stick to my SINGLE 550 size BL wheeled car that does 56 already (not tricked out) that will actually retain steering ability at high speeds.

shenanigans61

Correction. Spoke to the guy a little bit more and the $299 kit includes everything - battery, charger, and radio. That's gotta cut into his profits a bit, but really makes the pricing a lot more on-target for what I'd expect to pay for an electric R/C toy.

I'm sold on this as soon as it proves that it's not vapor.

tayaya

Heck, this hacked together x-twin hovercraft is much faster than that overpriced crap:

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macrumpton

@SyphonFilter: Thanks... I need to bleach my eyes now.

AmishJohn

looks like you can't control your hacked together xtwin and it probably goes about 8mph tops. by the way. I think you broke it. you might want to spend the $250 and get an axon racer.

velotron

They should have mounted a small wireless camera on it and shown the footage.

MePerson