Back to the Future: Human Disease Edition - http://clapway.com/2015/12/28/back-to-the-future-human-disease-edition-123/

Rare diseases are making a comeback in the United Kingdom. The Victorian diseases, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, measles and whooping cough disease have made it back to the future that thought them defeated. The National Health Service of England has declared that there has been a steady rise in the incidence of these diseases in the last five years, backed up by a new study out of London, England.

England Goes Back to Victorian Times

Public Health England has reported a rise in scarlet fever cases over the last two years. They don’t expect the numbers to go down during the upcoming season. Scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, is a bacterial infection that affects children at or below the age of 10. Symptoms include pink rashes, skin infection and a sore throat.

Tuberculosis Makes a Grand Entrance

Tuberculosis has always been a huge world problem. It affects 113 in every 100,000 people. The rate has gone down significantly in developed countries, but countries that are underdeveloped or developing have much higher numbers. There’s been a 300% rise in cases of cholera, and a 38% rise in the incidence of scurvy, a disease caused by a significant deficiency in vitamin C.

Disease Rarely Comes Out of Nowhere

London health experts have inferred on the rise of these Victorian diseases. Migration is the top cause that may have caused this rise and spread. This is because people are the biggest transportation vessel for these sicknesses. Malnutrition is the second highest cited cause, as malnourished people have weaker immune systems. This makes them more prone to catch these diseases and more vulnerable to viruses and bacterial infections. Another possible cause is improper or lack of health care. The UK alone is cutting as much as $300 million from the National Health Service’s budget. This will come as a huge blow to programs that look to protect children and the elder from these infectious diseases.

Will England Reduce the Number of People Let into the Country?

With migration being the number one suggested cause for the peak in cases of these diseases, it is possible England will be more choosy about the people that come into UK soil. This comes at an inconvenient time, with Syrian refugees looking for asylum all over the world. It’s yet to be seen how they will handle these findings.

Back to the Future: Human Disease Edition

Back to the Future Day Is Here! Did They Get it Right? - http://clapway.com/2015/10/21/back-future-day-get-right/

The day has finally arrived my fellow Back to the Future lovers! October 21^st, 2015 is the date that Doc, Marty, and Jennifer traveled to when they went to the future to try to prevent Marty’s son from being arrested. That movie was made a near 40 years ago, so the question is did the film makers get 2015 correct?

Back to the Future’s Vision of This Year

Well the infamous date of October 21^st, 2015, which is the date that they traveled to, has finally arrived. For those of us that remember, in the second part of Back to the Future, Doc Brown had traveled to 2015 to see what the future held. He came back to tell Marty that something terribly wrong was going to happen to his future son and that they had to travel to the future to stop it. So how exactly did the makers of Back to the Future interpret what 2015 would be?

In their version of 2015 a lot of cool and innovative things were happening. The biggest aspect of Back to the Future’s 2015 was the fact that there were flying cars. The highway was in the sky and all of the cars traveled via flight. There was also the life-like shark hologram that came down and virtually attacked Marty, Marty’s jacket and shoes that automatically adjusted to his size, and that awesome frozen bite-size pizza that Marty’s mom put into the microwave that turned into a full-size large pizza. The biggest feature of Back to the Future’s version of 2015, however, is the way they portray their automobiles, but unfortunately they were not quite on point.

The Real 2015

Oh, Back to the Future, how everyone only wished you would have gotten it right. It is safe to say that the world has not yet seen the breakthrough of flying vehicles and flying taxi cabs! Will that revelation ever happen? With the way technology adapts and innovates, it is quite possible that maybe in 40 more years that the world will indeed see the dream of flying automobiles.

The other cool aspects thrown into Back to the Future’s 2015, the hologram, jacket, and pizza, are probably not to far fetched because though they’re not seen today, they are all definitely possible.

One could honestly say that the real version of 2015 is really dull and boring compared to what Back to the Future’s 2015 consisted of. I mean how cool would it be to have flying vehicles in the world today?

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Back to the Future Day Is Here! Did They Get it Right?

#BackToTheFuture fans -- you have new reasons to get pumped! - http://clapway.com/2015/08/05/ready-to-go-back-to-the-future-the-lexus-hoverboard-goes-for-a-test-ride-353/

October 21, 2015 is a date that many fans of the Back to the Future films have been waiting for, to see how many of the film’s predictions for the year 2015 were accurate…and it just so happens that one of the futuristic technologies shown in the movie might just be a reality soon, thanks to the Lexus hoverboard, Slide.

A Real-Life Functioning Hoverboard

Back in June of this year, Lexus unveiled its Slide hoverboard with a short teaser video that set the internet abuzz with talk of the Lexus hoverboard. Many people wondered if the hoverboard shown in the short clip was a legitimate hoverboard. Some skeptics even claimed that it was probably just a promotional video to get people to talk about the Lexus brand before they unveil a new car.

Those concerns were finally answered with the release of the test run video, which shows the Lexus hoverboard in action at a special “hover park” in Spain. The video shows professional skater Ross McGouran doing a few test rides on the hoverboard and getting acquainted with the new technology.

One would assume that riding a hoverboard would essentially be the same as riding a skateboard, but according to McGouran, that is not really the case. “I’ve spent 20 years skateboarding, but without friction it feels like I’ve had to learn a whole new skill, particularly in the stance and balance in order to ride the hoverboard. It’s a whole new experience,” he said of his Lexus hoverboard experience.

Pre-Slide Hoverboard Buzz

Skeptics of the Lexus hoverboard teaser video from June were not unjustified in their skepticism, however. Last year, the very first mention of a supposedly functioning hoverboard came from HUVr. They released a promotional video that showed people supposedly hovering around on what looked like fully functional hoverboards almost identical in design to the Back to the Future hoverboard that Marty McFly used. The video even featured pro skater Tony Hawk, which lent credence to the authenticity of the video for many who viewed it. After generating much buzz on the internet, Tony Hawk admitted that it was staged and apologized for the fake video.

Later that year, however, another hoverboard took the internet by storm, as the American startup company Arx Pax announced its intention to produce and market the Hendo Hoverboard on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. This hoverboard, unlike the HUVr hoverboard, was the real deal. It was not quite the hoverboard that Back to the Future fans had been waiting for, but it was a good first step in the right direction. Considering how the Lexus hoverboard works, some would even say that it is somewhat of a precursor to this latest hoverboard.

How Does the Lexus Hoverboard Work?

Remember the special “hover park” in Spain mentioned at the beginning of this article? The catch to this hoverboard from Lexus is that it works because the park that the video was filmed at contains about 656 feet of magnetic track, which essentially acts as a wide open train track for the hoverboard to work on.

The board contains superconductors that are cooled to and maintained at a temperature of -197º F through the use of liquid nitrogen, which generates a quantum locking effect that enables the board to remain in a state of constant levitation as long as it is being used in the special park in Spain. Watch the test ride video below and see the board in action for yourself.

Of course, what this means is that fans of the Back to the Future films who have dreamed of the day that they can be just like Marty McFly and cruise around town in a hoverboard still have to wait for the kind of hoverboard that they saw in the film to become a reality. Thanks to the Lexus hoverboard, though, fans know that it’s only a matter of time before that day arrives…hopefully such technology will get here before October 21, 2015.

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Ready to go "Back to the Future"? The Lexus Hoverboard Goes for a Test Ride

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Fans of “Back to the Future”, or futuristic technology, or just really awesome gadgets received incredible news from Lexus the car manufacturer this week. Lexus has released a short video of their Lexus Hoverboard, “SLIDE” which they are claiming after 18 months of development is finally a working product. While the details remain vague about the new device, they have released some information, and unlike other hoverboard videos to have been released in the last few years, this doesn’t appear to be a hoax or a publicity stunt to garner more attention for Lexus.

The mechanics behind the impossible

Inventors have yet to make a hoverboard that is operational on anything but a metal surface, and Lexus is no exception. “SLIDE”, similar to other hoverboard design such as the Hendo hoverboards, uses magnetism to power the levitation and move the device. However according to the website where they have released the teaser trailer for “SLIDE” they aren’t just using any old magnets, “the Lexus Hoverboard uses magnetic levitation to achieve frictionless movement. Liquid nitrogen cooled super conductors and permanent magnets combine to allow Lexus to create the impossible.” Lexus Hover technology moves beyond what was previously thought possible for transportation in skateboard sized form.

Why spend the time to create a functional Lexus hoverboard?

Lexus hoverboard technology is all part of their ongoing “Amazing in Motion” project, to design what was previously thought impossible, or has never been done before. Spearheading the “SLIDE” project is the Lexus chief engineer Haruhiko Tanahashi. In the video he gives a kind of mission statement in regards to the creation of the Lexus hoverboard stating, “There is no such thing as impossible, it’s just a matter of figuring out how”. While the details are vague, Lexus promises to release more information to their website about the “SLIDE” periodically as there are developments. 2015 is the year that Marty Mcfly travels to in back to the future II, and we may not have everything that they promised us in that movie today, but thanks to Lexus hover technology and the creation of “SLIDE”, we are one step closer to fulfilling our childhood dreams.

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Lexus Hoverboard Technology Unveils "SLIDE" Hoverboard