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[neworbit]

Well, by comparison...

[jonah → neworbit]

There already are portable fuel cells, you still have to get the Hydrogen somewhere. Now if the Orbo worked, that'd be something different.

As for a hoverboard - sure it's technically more interesting than a Segway, but would it truly revolutionize anything?

[pyre → jonah]

  > As for a hoverboard - sure it's technically more interesting
  > than a Segway, but would it truly revolutionize anything

It would for the cast of Back to the Future on Ice. ;-)

Seriously though, I think that the technology behind a hoverboard would probably have far more implications than the technology behind the Segway. The product itself might not revolutionize much, but the technology behind it would.

[maushu → pyre]

I agree, the hoverboard itself would revolutionize much (well, maybe for skaters), but the technology behind would change how we travel; Heck, we could use it to decrease the weight of the cars we currently use at least.