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The Hoverboard

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I just want to see where they're going with all of this.
There are more then a few celebrities who have been involved with endorsing this on video now, that I can't just see it being done with. There has to be something more coming, and I hope its good :)
 
I just want to see where they're going with all of this.
There are more then a few celebrities who have been involved with endorsing this on video now, that I can't just see it being done with. There has to be something more coming, and I hope its good :)

It's a prank that sprung from a Funny or Die video because we're nearly up to Back to the Future II's future segment which was set in 2015. There's no actual product coming.

You could make a hoverboard that runs on a superconducting track, but not one that flies wherever it wants, nor one that could support the weight of a human rider yet. You could make a hoverboard that has internal helicopter-like rotors, but again, not one capable of supporting a human rider. For that, you'd have to increase the size to about twice that of a large motorcycle or half the size of a small car (a company has built one in a quest to make a Star Wars-like speeder bike, though it looks and behaves nothing like it).
 
I think we can be fairly sure that when or if a compact anti gravity technology arrives, the first thing we hear about it will not be an advert for a flying skateboard.
 
...still want me a pair of those shoes and the jacket...I vaguely recall a time when a version of the shoes were available...without the auto.-fit...

"...Mahhrteee,..."
 
...still want me a pair of those shoes and the jacket...I vaguely recall a time when a version of the shoes were available...without the auto.-fit...

"...Mahhrteee,..."

A year or 2 ago IIRC...
Limited edition, so pricey...
 
I believe Nike is making an actual pair of self-lacing/tying shoes next year.

And, yeah, of "hoverboard" technology like this ever were invented I doubt its first application would go to skateboards. Nor do I think it would look *exactly* like the technology from the movie.
 
Eh, instead of hoverboards we have this

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Bm3cs9TFo[/yt]


Let's go waterboarding! Even American Presidents are into this stuff!
 
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