Magnetic Hover Chairs
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Stumble ThisInspired by the hover board flown by Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part 2 (1989), British company HoverIt, Ltd. has designed the world’s first consumer-ready hover chair. Available for just under $10,000 U.S., the hover chair works like a mag-lev train, floating above a set of powerful magnets, as shown by Steve Wild and Keith Dixon on Richard and Judy on Feb. 6th, 2008.
While the hover chair of course falls into the novelty category at this early stage, I can imagine a variety of future applications for long-lived magnetics that include shock absorption while walking or gliding, new-fangled fitness training equipment and ultimately some sort of hover board that works in concert with a gyroscopically regulated platform such as the one at the heart of the Segway human transporter.