Do you remember the hoverboard from the movie Back to the Future? What was, at the time of the release of the movie, only a far-fetched invention imagined for the cinema is about to be commercialized.
The California-based startup Arx Parx is behind the project. Greg and Jill Henderson, the founders, named this hoverboard Hendo, and presented it on their Kickstarter page in the hope of raising enough funds to develop it. A campaign that seems to be going well, since with 54 days left to go, they have already obtained nearly 70,000 dollars out of the 250,000 dollars they hoped to raise.
The first real hoverboard!
It's not the first time that the web gets excited about a flying skateboard. A few months ago, a video made the rounds, showing a skater trying out a hoverboard. But it turned out that the video was just a fake, made by the website Funny or Die to get a little publicity.
This time, however, the hoverboard is real. Underneath the board, four disc-shaped motors create a magnetic field that causes it to rise above the ground. The process is powerful enough to lift an adult weighing 150 kg. The only problem is that the Hendo only works over conductive materials, in this case copper.
If we are still far from being able to hang behind cars with his hoverboard like Marty Mcfly, the designers of the project have nevertheless planned the construction of hoverparks and skateparks specially designed to allow levitation.
The first models of the Hendo hoverboard are expected to be delivered within a year, close to the date when Marty McFly arrives in the futureâeuros¦ (October 21, 2015).
