(humming noise)
- OK.
Then you--
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- A few weeks ago Keith and I went to San Francisco
and while we were there
we decided to go try out a hover board.
- In Los Gatos, "The Cats," California.
We were there just 'cause, like,
oh cool, the hover board!
Hell yeah we wanna ride the hover board.
Then we get there and we find out that,
I guess, this place is not just about making
hovering technology for the hover board.
The real purpose is actually to save millions of lives
by basically beating earthquakes.
- So we meet Greg Henderson who runs Arx Pax.
- He's a classic brilliant Dad.
He's also walking us around his office
while he explains everything.
- Alright well, we said, math slows me down,
so we'll figure out the math later.
Let's make something hover, first, and, you know.
- I like that.
So, when an earthquake happens,
he explained that there's like a early pulse
that's like "Hey, watch out, earthquake's coming.
"Fire up the engine!"
And they would fire up all these engines
on the bottom of a skyscraper.
- So if I'm the skyscraper--
- Right here, and there's just these little supports here,
right, they would fire up the engines,
they pull the supports down,
so this stays completely in the same place
but there's all this magnetism that's saving everybody
while the earth is shaking wildly under it.
The earth is like OK, I'm done.
The supports come back up,
everything's good.
The person in the building has no idea
that there was even an earthquake.
So we were like, of course,
you could probably with a million engines lift anything,
but that's gotta cost a fortune.
- 13 dollars and 10 cents.
That's what we're talking about.
What it would take to hover a house.
- Uh, and then he's like, "No, it's really cheap."
So we walk into the room with the hover board,
there's copper everywhere.
- [Chris] Like a copper skate park.
- And the woman explained to you how the thing works, right?
- Yeah, and I totally got it, but...
Let's have her explain it instead.
- This is the Hendo hover board.
There are actually four of these hover engines on board.
Each one of these is creating a magnetic field.
Basically we have two magnetic fields.
One in the surface, one in the engine,
and they're repelling each other
and that's what generates the lift.
- Basically that's a hundred pounds per engine
for this little engine
but they can make engines in any size
and they showed us like a Roomba one
and Chris was like
"I wanna be the first to deliver something."
- Hey, it was pretty exciting.
I'm the first person to get a hover delivery.
- Do you have enough hover boards
for everyone in the office for when the earthquake happens
you can all jump on one and be safe.
- You know, "no" is the short answer,
but I wanna give you the long answer.
- OK, yeah.
- What do you do in an earthquake?
- Go to a doorway.
- Stop drop and roll, no that's fire.
- That's fire, stop drop and roll.
Call 911--
- Duck and cover.
- Duck and cover, save lots of lives.
However, if we have Napa in 20 seconds
and we have a warning,
it's no longer duck and cover,
it's everyone get out.
So hover boards in this building,
not necessarily a good idea,
uh, you can hover, but things crashing down on your head.
- Right, that's no good.
Unless you can like, like, fly out.
- Unless you're really skilled at the hover board.
- So eventually you can say, instead of duck and cover
you can just rise above.
And then everyone will be like, oh, how brilliant.
You can have it.
I made the white board, I made the white board.
- Congrats. - Thank you.
- You guys ready to ride the hover board?
- Yeah. - Alright.
- This is awesome.
(whirring noise) (upbeat music)
- Can I get on?
Oh yeah, I'm in the future.
I don't know how to control it.
How do I stop?
How do I stop? Stop me!
- Whoa!
It feels like I'm on a boat, a little bit.
Feels very boatish.
Ooh, I'm doin' it!
I'm just infinity spinning without even trying.
- First impression, I'm not relaxed enough.
Oh man, this is what it's like to be the puck in air hockey.
I am an air hockey puck.
This is amazing.
Infinity spin.
OK, how do I slow down?
Infinity spin!
(cheering)
I was on the magic carpet, I was flying,
and I"m like, oh, this is my opportunity to sing
"A Whole New World" from Aladdin,
'course I didn't think about how that's copy-written music,
and we would legal not be able to use that
so you can probably only see that in mute,
so just imagine that I'm singing,
and I'm killin' it.
I am killin' it.
I am singing it note for note, perfect.
- [Chris] He killed it.
- Just singin' the whole, I mean it felt like,
it was a dream come true,
'cause you know when you're a kid
and you watch Aladdin flying--
- Even just as an observer it was a dream come true.
To be honest.
- Thanks.
Ah! God!
Aw, man.