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Now, we haven’t covered many hovercrafts for awhile but here’s another hovercraft called Hovpod that can go on practically any surface including water, snow, sand, and more. (Update: Ooops, we did cover it before here.)

Hov Pod hovercraft are very easy and fun to drive; designed with marine safety in mind. These amphibious vehicles allow you to hover over any flat surface, including water, ice, snow, sand, mud, grass. Hov Pod hovercraft are safe, reliable, durable, & designed to make leisure hovercraft ownership easy.

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Tight, need to get one of these one day huh?

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For those who don’t know an OPAV is an Optionally Piloted Air Vehicle, this version can be flown unmanned or with a pilot hovering around 15 feet above the ground on a cushion of air similar to that of a hovercraft.

The company behind the VeriPod are called Air Buoyant they believe that this could be the Segway of the sky, although15 feet in the air is not technically right, but its close enough. These will be sold in kit form and state that it can be assembled over the weekend, all for around £10,000.

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Yep, you CAN make a hovercraft during your lunch break now. Just follow the directions!

I built a working hovercraft using cardboard and a shop vacuum in 30 minutes.

You can build a hovercraft quickly and easily using cardboard, duct tape, and a vacuum. There are excellent instructions available on the Internet. I adapted these standard instructions by substituting cardboard for plywood. In fact you build a hovercraft out of most anything that’s more or less airtight.

You can ride your hovercraft outside by using a gas powered leaf blower instead of a vacuum. Don’t use a leaf blower indoors because they are very loud and create smoke. One problem you will encounter outside is that there are few flat surfaces. Tennis courts work well. If you try to ride on the road you will quickly end up in the ditch since roads have a convex surface that keeps rainwater from building up.

Well… you CAN make an alarm system in 3 minutes too… (That means you can make 10 alarm systems for the time it takes to make 1 hovercraft…)

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Wow, check out this awesome homemade balancing skateboard. As a skateboarder myself, this is way too cool…

It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input other than the movement of your body mass. Leaning forwards and backwards controls the velocity and moving your weight from heal to toe controls the turn radius. It’s easy and very intuitive to ride.

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Wow, I wish this was real…

Here’s hoverbike, which is basically a mix of a hoverboard and segway.
Actually we have been developing our own too. Well we just got
our prototype started so… we will see about the next Zedomax Hoverbike…
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