Where's my hoverboard? And other movie tech we want now

By Andrew Lim on 19 February 2008, 3:24pm

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Flying cars from the Fifth Element
With a vast number of cars hitting our roads each year, we need a way to avoid traffic. Flying cars would certainly get us to work quicker than the Northern line.

Where the hell is it?
Quite apart from the frightening prospect of letting the general public fly tonnes of metal around, it takes a huge amount of energy to get us lardy human beings airborne. The fuel bill, and environmental impact, of widespread personal air travel would be astronomical.

I want one now!
A fantastically crazy company called Moller International has come up with a fully working flying car, called the M400 Skycar. The M400 is equipped to hover or fly through the air, enabling it to be used in urban environments. We're not sure how legal it is in the UK, but if you fancy buying one, you can put down a deposit now. The US, with its 5,000 local and regional airports, is a more likely place to have a network of 'microjet' air taxis.