Hoverboards, according to Back to The Future, are just a year away, and one company claims they can deliver in the nick of time. However, it remains to be seen if this promise has much more substance than the various hoaxes that have come out since the film.
Producing a hoverboard that would work over all (solid) surfaces and fly meters off the ground would take a technological breakthrough far beyond anything we are likely to manage soon. More realistic would be a sort of solo version of a maglev train. However, the excitement of riding up and down the same track would probably pale quickly.
The latest claim falls somewhere in between. Rather than only being able to hover over a repulsive magnet, the company Arx Pax, sometimes referring to themselves as Hendo, claim their board will carry a human over any conductor that is not ferromagnetic – that is not containing iron, nickel or cobalt.
Arx Pax say that the hoverboard will be just the beginning, a way of mobilizing the capacity of technology that will eventually embrace flying cars and earthquake-proof buildings. They’ve certainly convinced some people, with their Kickstarter campaign more than half-funded.
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