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October 7, 2015 08:32 pm GMT

I rode the 'Hoverboard' and now I wish levitating skateboards existed

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If it doesn't hover off the ground, it's not a hoverboard.

And yet that didn't deter Robert Bigler, the founder of Hoverboard Technologies, and his team from building the Hoverboard (with a capital H), a personal electric mobility vehicle that looks kind of like an alien weapon and doesn't levitate at all, despite sharing the same name as Marty McFly's fictional levitating skateboard from Back to the Future.

Earlier this week, I got to ride the company's so-called non-levitating Hoverboard, and while it doesn't float (bummer), it's the next closest thing we'll get to one. (I'm aware of Hendo's Hoverboard and Lexus' hoverboard marketing stunt, but as far as I'm concerned, those don't count because they only work in highly controlled environments.) Read more...

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