When I was a kid I believed Hoverboards were real. No, I wasn’t particularly stupid — I just was a bit gullible. During a Making Of Back To The Future Part II television special, director Robert Zemeckis said, in all seriousness, that the the hoverboards used in the movie were real, yet they were not being released to the public due to parental complaints regarding safety. Of course, Zemeckis was joking, but many people didn’t realize it at the time. Mattel actually received tons of letters demanding that they release the hoverboards to the public, and the Back to the Future cast/crew claim “are hoverboards real?” is one of the most frequently asked questions they receive.
But now Hoverboards are real (kinda). French artist Nils Guadagnin has created an electromagnetic replica of the hoverboard from Back to the Future 2.
The Hoverboard is a project born in 2008 for an exhibition named “Back To the future”. It is a copy of the hoverboard from the movie Back to the Future II. Integrated into the board and the plinth is an electromagnetic system which levitates the board. A laser system stabilises the object in the air. In the making of this work, this artist was thinking about different ways of presenting sculpture. In fact it’s a reflexion on the multiple possibilities of how to give a sculpture full spatial autonomy.
After the jump you can see more photos and even a video of the hoverboard in action. I would actually pay if they made these available with a small stand.
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Designer Chris Dimino created a cuckoo clock themed after Stanley Kubrick‘s classic The Shining. Dimino was challenged to create a cuckoo clock in which the clock itself, the cuckoo motion, sound, and the pendulum capture a moment in time fitting these elements to a concept. The solution was the classic moment from The Shining in which Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance comes crashing through the door wielding an ax.
The clock mimics the moment from the film, and every hour Jack breaks through the door and the famous line “Here’s Johnny” plays followed by a scream by Shining co-star Shelly Duvall. Check out the full clock after the jump.
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Have you ever wondered how many computers it takes for Pixar to render their big screen 3d animated films or ILM to render giant transforming robotic aliens? I understand this area of filmmaking might not be interesting to everyone, but I find it fascinating. Besides being a huge film geek, I’m somewhat of a techie as well. The first time I had the opportunity to visit LucasFilm, they actually showed me the company’s huge renderfarm, a room in the basement housing all the computer servers used for all the LucasFilm, LucasArts and ILM productions. I took the photo above.
A few videos have been circulating the interwebs this week giving us a glimpse at the tech behind LucasFilm and Pixar, the San Francisco Bay Area’s two big film companies. Watch them now, after the jump.
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A couple weeks ago we featured a cool Iron Man macbook decal which transformed the glowing apple logo into Tony Stark’s arc reactor. Today we bring you another Iron Man macbook decal, this time in full color. The other big change is that the glowing apple logo fits into Iron Man’s arm blaster. Skinat is selling the vinyl lucid sticker in three different sizes, for $14.99on Etsy.
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Gizmodo discovered this very cool yet unofficial Iron Man MacBook Pro decal which moviemagicman is selling on Etsy. I love how the Apple logo glows through his chest, replacing the arc reactor that we’re use to.
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Sony Ericsson has put together a glow-in-the-dark Tennis event which was inspired by Disney’s Tron. Everything glows, from the players wardrobe, to the court, to the huge futuristic scoreboard wall, to the ball which is said to leave a glowing streak in the air. The game is set in a nightclub, with live music provided by club DJs. Check out a video embedded after the jump.
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Have you ever wondered how the zombie apocalypse might unfold? Binary Space has created a Zombie Outbreak Simulator which allows you to witness the viral spread of the great zombie outbreak in Google Maps as it sweeps across Washington DC, in an area close to the Catholic University of America, north of the Pentagon. Users can modify various settings in the “sandbox” such as zombie numbers, speed, infection times and so on, and then watch the results unfold. Head on over to Class3Outbreak.com to see it in action.
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If you own an Nintendo Wii, then you have one of those ugly Wii sensor bars on top of your television. It kinda looks like the ugly cousin of the lightbar from the Kitt Knight Rider car. LucasFilm has officially licensed a Darth Vader figure which acts as a Wii SEnsorbar holder. The sensorbar is inserted into Vader’s red lightsaber. You can read a press release after the jump.
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