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Lexus claims to have made an actual hoverboard

This year appears to be the year of hovering thingamajigs; we’ve already seen a clever inventor set a world record for hoverboard flight, and just this week we wrote about how the US military is investigating the use of hoverbikes.

Now, Lexus has shown off what it claims is a working hoverboard with a teaser trailer that shows a skateboard rider transitioning from a board with wheels, to one without. But in classic teaser fashion, just as the rider jumps on, the video ends. Check it out:

Lexus has also put together a splendid-looking website to showcase the Lexus Hoverboard, and lest you think it’s a joke, the YouTube page that hosts the teaser is called “Lexus has created a real, rideable overboard”. That’s pretty unambiguous, and also opens the company to unpleasant repercussions should it prove to be untrue, so it pretty much has to be. 

Just how does the board work? Lexus hasn’t provided the technical nitty-gritty, settling instead for wording like “The Lexus Hoverboard uses magnetic levitation to achieve amazing frictionless movement” on the teaser site.

This raises the question: what surface was the teaser video shot on? One would think that for magnetic levitation to work, it would need to be on some sort of metal surface and not the concrete-like surface of a skate park that the video implies it’s on.

Still, however it works is irrelevant, as long as it does. Lexus has promised weekly updates to the site, so add it to your Favourites and keep checking back; perhaps one day soon they’ll show someone actually riding the thing.

[Source – Lexus]

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