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8:48AM Kyle VanHemert | The Air Board personal hovercraft is the latest in a long lineage of novelty transportation devices that are as ridiculous as they are expensive. Just don’t think about trying to float this $US140,000 punch-line to the beach. More »
The Ridiculously Cool Air Board Personal Hovercraft
8:48AM Kyle VanHemert | The Air Board personal hovercraft is the latest in a long lineage of novelty transportation devices that are as ridiculous as they are expensive. Just don’t think about trying to float this $US140,000 punch-line to the beach. More » 
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Dream Job: Scientists Search For Arctic Asteroids On Hovercraft
3:10AM Mark Wilson | Ever since hovercraft popularity peaked in early 90s R/C toys, I’d mentally buried the sheer awesomeness of the technology. Luckily, Wired reminded me with a piece depicting researchers searching for asteroids in the Arctic while floating on air and rubber. More »
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Steamboat Willy Human-Powered Hovercraft Crosses The Thames
7:45AM Dan Nosowitz | This pedal-powered hovercraft, built by a flight group at the University of London, is constructed out of the absolute lightest materials possible (carbon fibre, glass cloth, styrofoam) to make it floaty enough to cross the Thames. And it does! More »
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Flying Car Completes Its First Flight, Promises to Be Totally Unaffordable
11:00AM Dan Nosowitz | We’ve been promised flying cars in sci-fi for so long, we’ve forgotten that by god, we’re owed them. This “Transition” aircraft is a pretty decent first step, but we’ve got a ways to go. More »
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