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Antigrav will give us flying cars, but more importantly it'll reinvent jetski technology. These seacraft hoverpods look sexier than those pod racers in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Plus you could zip up onto the beach and spray sand in the face of the jock who bullied you during high school.
Scott Robertson loves to draw hovercraft, or "los aerodeslizadores" as they say in Spanish, which sounds a whole lot cooler. Even though they aren't touching the water, they look like they could cut right through it with the knife-edged fins, and check out the wake they're tossing out behind them. You wouldn't want to get sucked into one of those engines, but you'd probably love sitting behind the wheel of one of these things.
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I don't know... Can anything really be cooler than the jetskis you stand up on. Man, whenever I see one I think "there goes a trendsetter"
Antigrav will give a whole lot of things a new, awesome, and dangerous twist (maybe not so dangerous if you have your antigrav safety suit).
Take motorcycles, for instance. Anyone here remember the old Playstation game JetMoto, with the hovering bikes? Man, I wanted one of those.
@WickedGlee: Boy do I! So much fun. Hovering bikes are my favorite subject for ocassional deviantArt searches, too, because people have generated some really awesome concepts. Once the technology actually comes around, the design departments will have it made!
Cool, one man Ekranoplans!!!!
As long as they don't make the horribly annoying whine that jet skis make. However I think the jet engine wout take care of that.
Small world note: Harald Belker's fire engine from Farenheit 451 a few days ago is linked to this picture through "Minority Report." Harald Belker and Scott Robertson worked on "Minority Report" together and Belker's website links to Scott Robertson's website designstudiopress (a very cool place to poke around). Scott Robertson carries Belkers' DVD tutorial series as well. Two guys who have very cool styles. See gnomonworkshop also. Cool stuff there, too.
I want an 8 engined ekranoplan .... screw this single engine wimpiness.
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I'd settle for a flycycle and an arch to steer her by.
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