Hoverbikes Exist!

The future is now! I present the awesome fully functional Aerofex dual rotor-powered hoverbike! This thing is so damn cool. It's right out of a sci-fi movie. Sure it's not as fast as the Star Wars speeder bikes, but it's a start. There's also no pilot training needed. 

Here's are some details about the the hoverbike for you to read over...

[The bike] originates from a design abandoned in the 1960s because of stability and rollover problems. Aerofex, a California-based firm, fixed the stability issue by creating a mechanical system -- controlled by two control bars at knee-level -- that allows the vehicle to respond to a human pilot's leaning movements and natural sense of balance.

But Aerofex does not plan to immediately develop and sell a manned version. Instead, the aerospace firm sees the aerial vehicle as a test platform for new unmanned drones -- heavy-lift robotic workhorses that could use the same hover technology to work in agricultural fields, or swiftly deliver supplies to search-and-rescue teams in rough terrain.

Such intuitive controls could allow physicians to fly future versions of the vehicle to visit rural patients in places without roads, or enable border patrol officers to go about their duties without pilot training.

Even the soldiers or Special Forces might use such hover drones to carry or deliver heavy supplies in the tight spaces between buildings in cities. 

Aerofex has currently limited human flight testing to a height of 15 feet and speeds of about 30 mph, but more out of caution rather than because of any technological limits. Older versions of the hover vehicles could fly about as fast as helicopters, De Roche said.

I want one. Check out the video below showing off some of the test flights. What do you think about these hoverbikes being used in everyday life? Do you think they are practical tools? Or just something for us to play around with?