Floating

Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment

The Air Board personal hovercraft is the latest in a long lineage of novelty transportation devices that are as ridiculous as they are expensive. Just don’t think about trying to float this $14,000 punch-line to the beach. Yes, for a mere $14,000 and a good bit of dignity, the Air Board will zip you along…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 30

Floating Campgrounds for Your Waterworld Vacation

If rising sea levels wipe out Earth’s landmasses, you might miss the quiet days of camping by the lake and sinking your bare toes in the grass. Or just build your own campground, like the one spotted floating through Amsterdam. To deal with rising tides and flooding, the Netherlands has begun to turn to floating…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 4

Magnetic Levitating Turntable Concept Looks Impractical, Amazing

Rhea Jeong’s “void” turntable concept uses what would have to be incredibly strong and precise magnet control to levitate a record above its base. That little red ball on top of the vinyl is actually the needle. We’re not sure how the music would be outputted—would there be a transmitter in the red sphere? It’s…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 27

Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth

Bugs that skate on water can do it because their feet are “superhydrophobic.” Chinese scientists applied a similar coating to a tiny copper mesh boat, and suddenly it could hold three times the weight. It’s actually crazy: The superhydrophobic coating—what the scientists are casually calling “the cooperative effect of hierarchical micro/nanostructures and a low-surface-energy wax…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 12

Inflatable Dog Collar Keeps Rover Floating Without Swim Lessons

The Float-A-Pet collar is two gadgets in one: a water-sensing inflatable floaty, and an LED locator. The other dogs may make fun of him, but that’s a trade-off he’s probably willing to make. The collar illuminates at night, thanks to built in, solar powered LED lights, which could be helpful if your pooch is the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 20

Amazing Fly Stick Levitating Toy Doesn’t Need Spells, Just Static Electricity

“Wow!” was basically my reaction to this video of the Fly Stick levitating toy in action, followed by the realization that this is about as near as you’ll ever get to really playing with magic (or the Force, my inner geek reminded me). Of course the forces it uses are all very real: it’s a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 29

Pioneer 3D Floating Vision: Half Wii, Half Surface, All 3D

Pioneer showed off their new Floating Vision technology at CEATEC this year. It’s a system of layers: first, an LCD with built-in computer, then an array of 3D lenses, and finally the “space sensor,” or virtual screen, where you can wave your fingers around and watch the 3D animations react accordingly. But the space sensor…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 4

Dubai Taking More Cues From Failed Movies By Sinking Money Into Floating Islands in the Shape of Letters

Just when we thought Dubai couldn’t make more absurd architectural decisions, they go and commission a Dutch dude to make floating islands in the shape of Arabic letters that spell out a part of a poem. This floater of an idea has been tried before, albeit on a smaller scale with cruise ship terminals, mosques…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 21

Floating Mosques for a Climate-Changed World

An architecture firm in the Netherlands, Waterstudio, specializes in architecture that “makes friends with water.” Its principle designers are environmental futurists, attempting to create structures for a world where water levels are much higher than today. One of their projects, which will be completed this year, is a floating mosque in Dubai. See the interior,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 22

Floating Golf Game

Interested in working on your short game but that pesky backyard pool getting in the way? This poolside golf game is the perfect solution to that predicament. It floats in the water, and you can chip special “hoop-and-loop” (Velcro) balls onto it. Miss the target and be forced to get wet retrieving the balls. It…

Tech News Travis Hudson May 2

Remote Control Floating Service Tray

What’s the difference between summer and winter? In the summer you can lay outside and be lazy as hell. This remote-control serving tray can be the cherry on top of your lazy summer sundae. All you have to do is navigate the tray to the edge of the pool, have your butler refill with brew…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Apr 3

Magnetic Floating Picture Frame Won’t Make Your Kid Less Ugly

This is an electromagnetic photo frame that can make it look like that picture is actually floating. It works because the photo frame has a magnetic field sensor on the top side and a microprocessor and other electronic doodads in the base that ensure the picture is always balanced. This is a great middle-man picture…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Apr 2

Journey Into Space (TIME Magazine, 1952)

“Pressure suits will improve, say the space doctors, but not enough to permit their wearers to work freely in a vacuum for long periods of time. Dr. Fritz Haber of the School of Space Medicine believes that the whole space-suit idea will have to be abandoned. If space men want to float around outside their…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 27

Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment

Floating Campgrounds for Your Waterworld Vacation

Magnetic Levitating Turntable Concept Looks Impractical, Amazing

Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth

Inflatable Dog Collar Keeps Rover Floating Without Swim Lessons

Amazing Fly Stick Levitating Toy Doesn’t Need Spells, Just Static Electricity

Pioneer 3D Floating Vision: Half Wii, Half Surface, All 3D

Dubai Taking More Cues From Failed Movies By Sinking Money Into Floating Islands in the Shape of Letters

Floating Mosques for a Climate-Changed World

Floating Golf Game

Remote Control Floating Service Tray

Magnetic Floating Picture Frame Won’t Make Your Kid Less Ugly

Journey Into Space (TIME Magazine, 1952)

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