{"id":9684,"date":"2007-08-15T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2007-08-15T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T00:42:10","slug":"my-wired-hovercraft-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9684","title":{"rendered":"My Wired Hovercraft Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/hoverPiece.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> I have a new piece on Wired.com, entitled: &#8220;Fifty Years of Hovercraft: The Tech That Barely Takes Off.&#8221; The title pretty much tells you what you need to know. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Post-Apocalyptic Crowd Control<\/b><br \/> If ever there was a craft that looked like it had slipped through a time portal, from some steel-hearted, robot-dominated future into our all-too-fragile, meat-based present, it&#8217;s SRL&#8217;s Pulse-Jet Hovercraft. The sound this thing makes, like millions of angry robotic bees gearing up to swarm, is indescribably creepy &#8230; and awe-inspiring. The all-aluminum construction weighs about 350 pounds, with four 4-foot long pulse-jet engines providing 70 pounds of thrust. At 150 decibels, it&#8217;s billed as \u201cthe loudest robot in the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Read the full piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/mods\/multimedia\/2007\/08\/gallery_hovercraft\" Target=new>here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new piece on Wired.com, entitled: &#8220;Fifty Years of Hovercraft: The Tech That Barely Takes Off.&#8221; The title pretty much tells you what you need to know. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: Post-Apocalyptic Crowd Control If ever there was a craft that looked like it had slipped through a time portal, from some steel-hearted, robot-dominated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Wired Hovercraft Piece&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}