California-based Aerofex claims that it's built a hoverbike with a novel, but intuitive, control system -- you swerve it left and right with your knees.
The pilot of Aerofex's hoverbike grips a pair of control bars and leans left and right to control balance. "It essentially captures the translations between the two in three axis (pitch, roll and yaw), and activates the aerodynamic controls required to counter the movement - which lines the vehicle back up with the pilot," Mark De Roche, Aerofex founder, told InnovationNewsDaily.
By: Duncan Geere, Edited by: Liat Clark
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/23/hoverbike
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