The Back to the Future trilogy is an integral part of geek canon, and we're now less than four months away from the date that Marty McFly traveled to in the second installment. That film offered us an interesting look at a future that in many ways is far beyond our own, while simultaneously missing things like smartphones and the Internet.
But in the same way that Motorola designers looked to Star Trek's communicators when making cell phones, others are trying to realize some of the other cool stuff we saw in Back to the Future 2. Nike is working on real-life Air Mags with self-lacing technology (finally!), and now Lexus has revealed it's built a hoverboard. Yes, you read that correctly. A hoverboard.
"It’s the perfect example of the amazing things that can be achieved when you combine technology, design and imagination,” said Mark Templin, a Lexus vice president. The hoverboard works on the same principle as a maglev train, with permanent magnets in the board, which repel liquid nitrogen-cooled superconducting magnets, causing the board to float.
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