Tag: Flying cars
Flying cars: just how close are they to reality?
Image: Samson Switchblade Research from comparison and switching site Uswitch has revealed the flying cars closest to reality, our attitudes to the emerging tech and 5 designs which are coming soon... 1. A first-generation flying car could cost as little as £95,000 Although some may not look like the technology…
Flying car hovers during Japanese demonstration
Japanese electronics firm NEC has unveiled a flying car which hovered steadily for about a minute. The test flight of the large drone-like machine with four propellers reached as high as 10ft. The event was held in a gigantic cage as a safety precaution at an NEC facility in the Tokyo suburb of Abiko. Preparations…
Robotic waiters among children’s predictions for life 200 years from now
Flying cars, jet packs and robotic waiters are among the predictions for life in 200 years time, at least according to the winners of Legoland's latest competition. As part of a creativity competition launched by the Legoland Discovery Centre and judged by futurist Richard Watson, children aged ten and under were asked to imagine and…
Top 10 sci-fi movie gadgets that someone really should be making
Last week's Back to The Future hoax (in which evil internet fibbers said that we'd actually reached the date in the "future" that Marty McFly heads to) got me thinking. To be precise, it got me thinking "WHERE THE HELL…