Tired of heavy, immobile computers? Solve all of your computer mobility problems with the new HoverCase. The patented HoverCase design replaces the conventional bottom of a PC case with powerful fans that suck out the heat from your computer and use it to inflate a hover skirt below its bulky frame allowing total mobility and smooth gliding action.
The HoverCase corporation assumes no responsibility for accidents caused by activating case on raised worksurface.-- harderthanjesus, May 25 2006 There is no such force as suction! http://www.avweb.co...irman/183261-1.html [nihilo, May 26 2006] Yay.-- skinflaps, May 25 2006 Hmmm, wireless networking, built in UPS, swivel chair with wheels...-- Shz, May 25 2006 make it street-legal.-- tcarson, May 25 2006 I don't know. With my luck, I'd have my computer follow me around gliding on air. Then I'd walk into a Starbucks and order a coffee; turn around; and step on my computer.
This would have two hilarious/disasterous effects. 1, the leg I'm standing on would rapidly accelerate while inducing a nasty fall; and 2, my computer would rapidly accelerate and likely finally come to rest in several pieces.-- pathetic, May 25 2006 Can I have a hoverchair?-- kuupuuluu, May 25 2006 Of course, just sit on your computer. Better than wheels any day.-- GutPunchLullabies, May 25 2006 //Can I have a hoverchair?// That's just ridiculous.
What's next the computer hat? ...dries your hair after a shower?
+-- silverstormer, May 25 2006 //What's next the computer hat? ...dries your hair after a shower?//
Just turn the computer on its side.-- shapu, May 25 2006 Computers that follow you around?-- DesertFox, May 25 2006 //Computers that follow you around?//
A dalek?-- skinflaps, May 25 2006 An Aibo?-- shapu, May 25 2006 Mine would need dog avoidance sensors.-- wagster, May 25 2006 //Mine would need dog avoidance sensors// Make it look like a bath or a vet.-- silverstormer, May 25 2006 Get Michael J Fox to advertise it, by riding it down the street. He's light enough.-- UnaBubba, May 25 2006 What powers it?-- BJS, May 26 2006 The heat and air draught from the CPU fan/s-- UnaBubba, May 26 2006 CPU fans cannot produce a sufficient amount of thrust to cause the computer to hover, and the computer would have to be plugged in, to power the fans, eliminating its portability feature.-- BJS, May 26 2006 You obviously aren't using big enough CPU fans or a big enough UPS.-- wagster, May 26 2006 // powerful fans that suck out the heat from your computer //
This idea is [magic] because, as my 7th grade science teacher explained: "there is no such force as suction".-- nihilo, May 26 2006 Well, if there isn't, it should jolly well be invented then.-- Ian Tindale, May 26 2006 Quiet! Don't tell all those hovercrafts that they're running on magic! Disastrous consequences will befall us.-- harderthanjesus, May 26 2006 //This idea is [magic] because, as my 7th grade science teacher explained: "there is no such force as suction"//
Very true, suction is infact a result of a pressure gradient. However [harderthanjesus] didn't mention suction being a force.
Hovercrafts, hoovers, vaccuum formers, hydraulics and pneumatics all exert or induce a suction of some kind - no one refers to any of these devices as 'utilising a pressure gradient.'
I would still like a hoverchair please :)-- kuupuuluu, May 26 2006 You can STILL sit on the hovercomputer.-- GutPunchLullabies, May 26 2006 Vibration isn't good for the little hard-drives and other parts inside.
In fact, vibration is a common stress test to accellerate aging to failure in reliability tests.
OK, enough taking too seriously.[+]-- sophocles, May 26 2006 halfbakery