Hovercraft

This is not your grandad's mangy old hovercraft. Oh no. The Arosa is an electric "luxury sports" hovercraft, you see, capable of highway speeds, tight maneuvers, and turning heads with a supercar bodykit that's guaranteed to blow some skirts up.

​Three years ago we heard about Parrot's Minidrone Hydrofoil, a radio-controlled model boat that uses a detachable aerial drone for propulsion. Well, Horizon Hobby has now taken a similar approach with its Blade Inductrix Switch RTF, which is a quadcopter/hovercraft combo.

While the recent HUVr Tech hoverboard hoax involving Tony Hawk and Christopher Lloyd had the internet buzzing with anticipation, we can now report that a Kickstarter project might finally deliver what we have all been waiting for. Well, sort of ... meet the HoverSkater.

That most long-awaited form of transport may finally be arriving with California-based Aerofex announcing that it'll be launching its Aero-X hoverbike in 2017 at an estimated price of US$85,000 (+CPI).

Here's one you might not have heard before ... Whaddaya get when cross a hovercraft, an airboat and a pontoon boat? An ATASD, or Amphibious Trimaran with Aerostatic Discharge! OK, it's not that funny, but the vehicle itself can go virtually anywhere, and should soon be heading into production.

The Open-Source Hoverboard project is an effort to begin the process of exploring whether a hoverboard like that seen in Back To The Future Part II could become a reality.

Hoverworks' AirRider hovercraft uses a hybrid hull and skirt design that combines the best of conventional hovercraft technologies.

Pro golfer Bubba Watson teamed up with Oakley to produce the BW1, the world's first hovercraft golf cart.

Videos released by California-based tech research company Aerofex appear to show successful test flights of a prototype hover bike that gains lift from two large ducted rotors.

Frustrated with what they see as stagnation in the evolution of hovercraft design over recent decades, cousins Michael Mercier and Chris Jones have teamed up to try and bring the design of the personal hovercraft into the 21st century.

The Hoverbike is a single seater aircraft that, according to its inventor, should be able to reach an estimated height of more than 10,000 feet and reach an indicated airspeed of 150 knots (278 km/h or 173 mph).

The Volkswagen Aqua Hovercraft hybrid concept