SLIDE: The Lexus Hoverboard is Here! [Video]

A luxury car company that creates a hoverboard? Why not? Te Lexus uses magnetic levitation and nitrogen-cooled superconductors to get its hoverboard in the air. Creating SLIDE required re-engineering core technologies and uncovering true technical innovations. From assembling maglev technology into a board, to finding the right combination of superconductors, magnets and liquid nitrogen – […]

My ‘Hands-On’ Experience with A Hands Free Electric Scooter (That Is Essentially A Hoverboard)

This is called a hands free electric scooter. It is basically a Segway without handles, and about as close as we can possibly come right now to the existence of an actual hoverboard. A friend of mine procured six of them (you read that correctly) and wanted to see what I thought. So how do […]

The “Invisible” Man: A Super Cool Invisibility Trick Performed Using an Action Cam

To perform this trick, special effects artist Zach King used one of Sony’s awesome new 4K Action Cam (FDR-X1000VR) strapped to his back and pointing backward to create the illusion of partial invisibility by transferring the live footage on a screen strapped to his chest. The effect is quite convincing, don’t you think? King and […]