Doo-doodoo-doodooo-doo doo-doodoo-doodooo-doo… Oh, nothing. Just singing the score to the The Wizard of Oz tornado scene when old Miss Gulch flies past Dorothy’s window on a bicycle, ’cause when I get my own sweet flying fixie, you bet your ass I’ll be soaring past your window with that song blasting from a clip-on boom box.
That’s right. The flying bicycle is now a real product, thanks to three Czech companies whose collaboration just resulted in the GREATEST THING EVER. The hoverbike weighs just over 200 lbs and is lifted into flight by six battery-powered propellers.
“Our main motivation [is] neither profit nor commercial interest, but the fulfilment of our boyish dreams,” engineering company Technodat’s Ales Koblik told Ceske Noviny, according to Wired UK.
While we are unlikely to see Hoverbike on the market until next year (it only just passed a radio-controlled flight test using a dummy pilot), and though it will be super heavy, very expensive and pretty slow… still, WHAT.
What's this? A list? Yes, we made a list. Whoop de doo dah. For those special moments when you quote a movie and the other person, for some reason, has never seen said movie and so you awkwardly stand there looking like a creepy asshole... Here's some bad stuff that sounds…
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Crystal Stilts' signature sound involves blanketing classic doo-wop and rock-and-roll sounds with an almost-imperceptible layer of dread, and accordingly, their playlist dips into the weirder corners of summer-of-love…
The Flaming Lips, fresh off of covering Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, have gone and done the Flaming Lipsiest thing possible: released an "immersive companion piece" to that venerated classic of bong-rock. The new record, dubbed Flaming Side of the Moon, is designed to be played simultaneously with Dark Side…
Doo-doodoo-doodooo-doo doo-doodoo-doodooo-doo… Oh, nothing. Just singing the score to the The Wizard of Oz tornado scene when old Miss Gulch flies past Dorothy’s window on a bicycle, ’cause when I get my own sweet flying fixie, you bet your ass I’ll be soaring past your window with that song blasting from a clip-on boom box.
