Romanian inventor tests new prototype of record-setting hoverboard

Duru Catalin flew up to five metres above a lake for a distance of 275.9 metres aboard his homemade, propeller-powered hoverboard in a trip that lasted more than 1½ minutes.

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+5 1. Pyranthos commented 9 years ago

Looks like fun. Kinda want one now

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+3 2. Gringo_el_Diablo commented 9 years ago

Auf und ab, komm mit aufs hovercraft!

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+5 3. thundersnow commented 9 years ago

#2
The video from May: http://www.snotr.com/video/15386/Farthest_flight_by_hoverboard_-_Guinness_World_Records

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+11 4. Zebulun commented 9 years ago

It seems "Back to the Future" was correct after all!

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+5 5. MindTrick commented 9 years ago

#4 they just missed slightly on the timeline, but almost there

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+2 6. loadrunner commented 9 years ago

It works on water

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+3 7. sux2bu commented 9 years ago

This is in Quebec and they say he is Canadian in the video @ 0:26 not Romanian.
Seems the news reporter got it wrong.

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+5 8. mircea911 commented 9 years ago

i love it how the guy is romanian but the documentary dude says he is canadian. at any rate cant wait for the supercapacitor batteries + this little baby

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+4 9. Geekster (admin) commented 9 years ago

#7 I can confirm that he is Romanian, he just lives now in Canada. Typical press "mistake" I guess dem basterds taking credits from us