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Lexus Creates a Hoverboard

Posted by samzenpus on from the marty-mcfly-approved dept.

walterbyrd writes: Lexus has built a functional prototype of a hoverboard that hovers several centimeters off the ground. The "Slide" is for demonstration purposes only and works through magnetic levitation created by superconductors, a spokesperson says. USA Today reports: "As cool as that sounds, there are some major limitations. Since it operates magnetically, it only can hover over a steel surface. And it also only works as long as the liquid nitrogen holds out."

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  1. What about with somebody on it. by Catmeat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ok, it's a hoverboard - in the narrow sense of it being a board and it hovers.

    One would expect it to to still hover with 80kg of person standing on it. Does it do that? A cursory look shows me no pictures of this.