Hoverboards

BREAKING NEWS: A Frenchman has built a functional prototype of the Back to the Future II hoverboard from this classic scene:

Now check the real deal:


No indication of whether it is stand-on-able, but it looks pretty legit, right down to the paint job.

I've been dreaming about having a hoverboard my whole life. Though the hot pink BTTF2 one is pretty rad, I prefer the design of the ones from ReBoot (see 1:00 through 1:40 of this video to see what I mean). I confess, I spent a lot of time thinking about this hoverboard when I was 12. Double confession: I still think about it, 15 years later. In the day I came up with a whole system of balance, propulsion, and storage of these things. I could still explain it all, but I'll save you the details. But seriously, if you want to talk about it I will gladly hold forth on my intuitive 360° movement system I "developed" (read: "played with in my imagination"). Using it I would look just like this, except (probably) not blue:





We will continue to track this story as it unfolds. Check back in about a decade when the next step in hoverboard technology develops.

Words to live by

"See I'm real glad that you opened up to me, 'cause that makes me like open up my heart, youknowmsayin?, and like share the stuff that's been happening to me. Because I used to be like you. I fell into that world of pretend. And that's where you gotta smarten up, and cut somebody sometimes. You might think that I float, you know, maybe even walk on water and stuff. But I mean to tell you that sometimes I drink out of a volcano. I know how to, to deal with the system. I know how to fuck wit it. I just gotta ask you, Ronnie, are you willing to accept what I have to teach?"

I thought that Observe and Report was much funnier than expected. Granted, I heard it was underwhelming, so I was primed to be impressed by anything. But let's face it, sometimes you have to drink from a volcano.

Logorama

Every once in a while I allow myself to just click around on the internet and see what comes up, and every once within those whiles I find a real gem. I don't know exactly what the "point" is, or if there even needs to be one, but this is really well done.

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

Thank you, internet, for the many gifts you have given us.