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New battery technologies have enabled them to build a small vehicle that can deal with both terra firma and that other stuff - air (which so easily can be mistaken for vacuum, when compared to firm ground)!

Is this the first small vehicle that deals with them both as a system?

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I have a toy car I bought 5 years ago from some street vendor in Hong Kong that can go on land and up walls (it has fans too). It uses regular AA batteries.

The main innovation here, as far as I can see, is that it can automatically make the switch between horizontal and vertical.

Cool :) "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." (William Gibson)

Any photos or keywords to search for online?

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