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I cannot overstate the significance of this news. French artist Nils Guadagnin has done the semi-possible: He’s recreated the hoverboard from Back to the Future II. And it totally works… so long as no one stands on it. More »
You may think that Marty McFly’s hoverboard is still a fantasy. It is, but you can make a pretty rough approximation of it on your own today without it costing too much.
The original hoverboard used by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2 is now on the auction block, starting at US$30,000. If you have that kind of money around, prepare more because this prop–made of wood and metal, including original stickers, textured paint job, and the hole left by the handlebar that Marty McFly pulls at the beginning of the chase sequence– may reach US$50,000 according to the seller.
Cornell researchers are working on a way to make hovering vehicles a reality. By pairing superconductors with permanent magnets, they’ve figured out a way to get objects to hover with complete stability without any power necessary.
It is a well-known fact that if the hover board from Back to the Future ever floated into existence, geeks the World over would forget their sexual frustrations for at least seven weeks. Here is a run down of where we stand at the moment—the Hoverboard by Future Horizons and the Airboard by Alura Intelligent Products, modeled by the above hoverboard honeys.
If there was a cooler movie prop in my childhood than the hoverboard from Back to the Future, Part II, I don’t know what it was. That hoverboard made me really, really want to be living in the year 2015. And while as I got older my pragmatism and cynicism lead me to believe we would definitely not have hoverboards by that time, I might just be proven wrong in the most awesome way possible: by real hoverboards.
