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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I love that instead of going for the obvious route of "Just get a laptop" which would have comfortably solved all those issues his solution is to build a giant bulky chair that'll take up half the loungeroom and features a screen with minimal positioning options and is smaller than a laptop screen. Yeah dude, if I want to play a game on the couch, I can just grab my macbook and controller while my gaming rig does the heavy lifting!
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"As hoverboards flooded the consumer marketplace we recognized what most buyers did, achieving balance wasn't as easy for some as it was for others. Enter, HoverBars. This unique patent-pending product makes the experience of riding a hoverboard fun and easy for kids and adults." has any of those devices actually been been referred to as "hoverboards"? I thought the generic term was balance boards or something like that. lol
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May 24, 2016 08:45
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There was also the Hendo Hoverboard which raised over half a million on Kickstarter last year and which actually hovers, but to get an actual working board you had to pledge $10,000 and they were only giving out 11 of those. They mention in the KS campaign description that the board will only work on a surface substrate made of sheets of non-ferromagnetic conductor (eg: copper) but what they didn't mention is that so far the only place that has a skate ramp clad in copper sheets is in their own warehouse in Los Gatos, California. They've got plans to make Hendo skate parks in the future and they even had a $59 pledge tier where the reward was that they'd inscribe your name onto some park of the hoverpark but who knows if that will ever happen.
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Waffleman_ posted:You're making a loving Segway. It looks like a retarded walking aid.
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I'm sure any copper-plated skatepark would be stripped bare in minutes.
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nawcom posted:has any of those devices actually been been referred to as "hoverboards"? I thought the generic term was balance boards or something like that. lol Yeah there was a whole fleet of non-hovering "hoverboards" that came out in the last couple years, I thought it was real dumb. But that's the point? They're trying to use the fake cool name of hovering to sell something that is most assuredly not cool. Snowglobe of Doom posted:There was also the Hendo Hoverboard which raised over half a million on Kickstarter last year and which actually hovers, but to get an actual working board you had to pledge $10,000 and they were only giving out 11 of those. They mention in the KS campaign description that the board will only work on a surface substrate made of sheets of non-ferromagnetic conductor (eg: copper) but what they didn't mention is that so far the only place that has a skate ramp clad in copper sheets is in their own warehouse in Los Gatos, California. Yeah there's this and there's one other one too that somebody made which actually hovers, but it has to be cooled by liquid nitrogen constantly so you can't use it for more than like 5 minutes tops at a time and it costs a fortune just to use it. Unlike the Hendo one I don't think you had to use copper, which was nice, but you did still have to use some kind of metal that would respond to magnetic forces, so no concrete.
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The Hendo works on aluminum as well as copper, but yeah, somewhat limiting in scope to say the least.
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The hendo is like super futuristic cool tech and yet it looks completely boring and dorky. It doesn't look like you'd get interesting sensations.
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah there was a whole fleet of non-hovering "hoverboards" that came out in the last couple years, I thought it was real dumb. But that's the point? They're trying to use the fake cool name of hovering to sell something that is most assuredly not cool. I've often wondered how the name "hoverboard" first got attached to a cheap Segway-scooter hybrid. quote:Yeah there's this and there's one other one too that somebody made which actually hovers, but it has to be cooled by liquid nitrogen constantly so you can't use it for more than like 5 minutes tops at a time and it costs a fortune just to use it. There's also this one which uses dozens of little ducted fans, letting it operate like the hoverboards from "Back to the Future" (much more so than anything previously called a hoverboard, at least): http://www.arcaspace.com/en/arcaboard.htm http://www.gizmag.com/arcaboard-hoverboard-arca-aerospace/41063/ ...for about six minutes until the battery runs down. Oh, and it weighs about 180 pounds, so you'd better be near an outlet when that happens. Then you get to wait six hours to recharge the battery, unless you bought the $4500 quick-charger. Plus the board itself costs almost twice as much as the Hendo. Cockmaster has a new favorite as of 02:34 on May 25, 2016 |
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Cockmaster posted:I've often wondered how the name "hoverboard" first got attached to a cheap Segway-scooter hybrid. No big mystery, they first started getting popular in the run up to Christmas 2014 and lots of people were talking about Back To The Future 2, with 2015 coming up.
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah there's this and there's one other one too that somebody made which actually hovers, but it has to be cooled by liquid nitrogen constantly so you can't use it for more than like 5 minutes tops at a time and it costs a fortune just to use it. Not sure it was copper, but it was definitely confined to a rail placed just under the skate surface, if I'm thinking of the same one that required liquid nitrogen. We'll never hit the future at this rate 
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'Balance Board' sounds like some gimmicky excerise thing you'd buy off the TV anyway, Hoverboard sounds futurisic and cool.
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/meet-the-pilot-smart-earpiece-language-translator--2#/ Almost 1.3 million in flexible funding already. 
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quickstix/quickstix-chopsticks-of-the-gods-with-insane-grip?ref=category_newest this is just pitiful but for once a bad idea might not make it over the line, even if it has a slick pitch E: they are chopsticks for people who don't know how to use chopsticks but who are prepared to pay $19 for a pair and wait 10 months instead of figuring the things out like a normal human
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Bugsy posted:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/meet-the-pilot-smart-earpiece-language-translator--2#/ A bluetooth headset with a high-gain mic and proprietary software that probably just uses Google Translate APIs or something. Nice.
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quickstix/quickstix-chopsticks-of-the-gods-with-insane-grip?ref=category_newest Why are they so short though? They've copied the design of disposable chopsticks and ignored normal Chinese restaurant style, and don't even look as swish as some Maxims chopsticks.  "Smart" chopsticks.  Porsche chopsticks, only € 75 MrMoo has a new favorite as of 02:49 on May 26, 2016 |
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quickstix/quickstix-chopsticks-of-the-gods-with-insane-grip?ref=category_newest The food demonstrations further down are As Seen on TV quality. 
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Gann Jerrod posted:The food demonstrations further down are As Seen on TV quality. I like how they made the plain chopsticks one extra round while theirs is pretty flat.
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Aren't there already chopsticks made for kids that are connected by plastic animals at the top?
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Gann Jerrod posted:The food demonstrations further down are As Seen on TV quality. Using a fork would be way less embarrassing
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Gann Jerrod posted:The food demonstrations further down are As Seen on TV quality. haha what a load of poo poo
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Using a fork would be way less embarrassing And it's also hilarious because sushi is really more of a finger food. That's why they give you a wet towel, it's to clean your hands before and after you eat.
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Munchables posted:Aren't there already chopsticks made for kids that are connected by plastic animals at the top? Yes, there are.
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Young Freud posted:And it's also hilarious because sushi is really more of a finger food. That's why they give you a wet towel, it's to clean your hands before and after you eat. This is seriously the best way to eat sushi.
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Also chopsticks are loving easy to begin with.
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kirbysuperstar posted:A bluetooth headset with a high-gain mic and proprietary software that probably just uses Google Translate APIs or something. Nice. It's probably got lovely battery life, super awkward lag, extra unreliable speech detection in anything but optimal studio conditions and so on
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Munchables posted:Aren't there already chopsticks made for kids that are connected by plastic animals at the top? I've even seen people make kid-friendly ones out of the disposible kind with a rubberband and wadded up napkin or cardboard.
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unpacked robinhood posted:It's probably got lovely battery life, super awkward lag, extra unreliable speech detection in anything but optimal studio conditions and so on They kind of bury the lede but it doesn't just work from someone talking a foreign language at you, they also have to be using some part of the device.
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Munchables posted:Aren't there already chopsticks made for kids that are connected by plastic animals at the top? Yeah, there are plastic kids / trainer chopsticks with similar gripping notches.
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brb, gotta finish my
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Can you instead make spike-accessories for your bicycle wheels so you can destroy the wheels of your competitors?
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, there are plastic kids / trainer chopsticks with similar gripping notches. You don't understand man, they're made from advanced engineering material! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwdxIUeMrSM&t=152s
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Gann Jerrod posted:The food demonstrations further down are As Seen on TV quality. I was gonna post exactly this. That's some "white people can't do basic poo poo" infomercial action right there.
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I, for one, am glad to see the outdated technology of two sticks working kind of like extended fingers being replaced by the hyper-modern technology of two sticks working kind of like extended fingers with thimbles at the end. …also, wouldn't hexagonal gripping part and round end make them more prone to suddenly spin around and send the food flying compared to the smooth gripping part with a solid square end (or just more uniformly square shape)?
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