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Air Board: a really silly, really expensive way to get around

Air Board: a really silly, really expensive way to get around

Think Segways are cool? You'll probably make the same mistake about the Air Board, too. Look, it's $14,000! Fourteen thousand! You could buy yourself a really nice (albeit used) car for that, and still have your integrity intact, too.

Just imagine I'm bitterly mumbling the rest of this: the Air Board stands four feet tall when assembled (and some assembly is required), requires gasoline, has a 1.3 gallon tank which it burns through in about an hour and it goes 15 miles-per-hour.

If you end up falling off, it also has a "kill-switch" that'll halt the vehicle. You won't have to watch your $14,000 mistake fly off a cliff. Oh, and no, it won't glide over water.

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By richpit at 3:04 PM ON 10/28/09

Wow, that seems pretty useless. And you don't even look cool "riding" it!

By jay trini at 3:19 PM ON 10/28/09

Rubbish!!

By guildersleeves at 3:47 PM ON 10/28/09

For $14G you too can be an air-hockey puck!

By hon900rx2 at 3:49 PM ON 10/28/09

I'll take 2!! hahahaha juuuuust kidding . now i might consider it if it worked over water like a real hover craft. even then... prolly not. but its cool to see somethin new

By Q at 7:03 PM ON 10/28/09

How is this news? These things have been around for at least a couple of years now!

By Haplo at 11:12 PM ON 10/28/09

That's not silly, that's Flash Gordon!

By Bronto at 3:15 AM ON 10/29/09

Brakes?


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