The Lexus Hoverboard Is Real And I Rode It - Jalopnik
The Lexus hoverboard is a real thing and I rode it. ( Full Disclosure: Lexus asked us if we would ride a hoverboard. Most famously appearing in Robert Zemeckis’s 1989 Back to the Future II , the concept hoverboard is probably less simple than it seems. In the same period of time that we’ve gone from the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the iPhone 6, we’ve only gone from leg-powered skateboards to a few electric-powered options. The Lexus board I rode is a far cry from that. Whisper quiet and smooth as glass, the Lexus hoverboard is a fully polished piece of kit. If the Hendo board is a Model T Ford the Lexus board is, well… a Lexus. Lexus actually isn’t really breaking any new ground here with their board. There are videos of people doing this with very small magnets so what Lexus and their scientific partners did was scale up the concept. Unbelievably difficult yet at the same time unbelievably cool, both because you’re levitating and because the board is filled with magnets. Source: jalopnik.com
