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WATCH: Lexus Debuts Working Hoverboard

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WATCH: Lexus Debuts Working Hoverboard

Great Scott! Lexus' Real Working Hoverboard Is AWESOME

Long Story Short

Lexus finally cracked the one piece of future tech that we've been waiting 20 years for: the hoverboard.

Long Story

No words, just watch:

Anyone who has ever seen the Back To The Future movies has wanted this piece of tech – maybe even more so than a time travelling DeLorean. A lot of people and companies have claimed over the years that they managed to build a working prototype but eventually they were all dismissed as hoaxes. Lexus – yes, Lexus the car maker – has somehow figured out the physics of levitation and created a beautiful looking hoverboard.

You can see steam rising from the board – that's liquid nitrogen keeping the superconductors and magnets from overheating. "It's an art of material science," Ludwig Schultz explains in the making-of video.

Whatever anti-gravity wizardy is inside the guts of this thing, well, wow. It does everything – you can coast, grind, hop, and yes, it even works on water (sort of).

Marty McFly would approve.

The course, apparently, is lined with metal (they call it a Hoverpark) –that's how the magnets keep it in the air. And it took more than 400 days from start to finish, so it was no easy project. Yes, there are a lot of limitations and it's not technically a pure hoverboard that you can ride anywhere but we'll take it. For now.

We don't know many more details than what's in the video (Is it just a prototype? Will they sell it? How much did it cost to make?) but whatever the answers to our questions are, well done Lexus.

See how they pulled it off:



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Ask The Big Question: How the hell does this thing work?

Disrupt Your Feed: It's just a trick, nothing new.

Drop This Fact: The Back To The Future script was rejected more than 40 times by studios.




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