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| Subject: Working hoverboard finally brings us back to the future - almost Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:02 am | |
| A lot of things can hover. There are helicopters. There are hovercraft. But for the last three decades, a generation of engineers and movie fans have been waiting for something else: a hovering skateboard like the one in Back to the Future Part II.
The hoverboard is fiction, the vision of screenwriters who created the film about Marty McFly, a teenager who travels from 1985 to October 21 2015, and uses a floating skateboard to flee a gang of bullies.
The movie had other futuristic items, like flying cars and self-tying shoes, but none touched the imagination as much as the hoverboard. For the last 25 years, garage tinkerers, physics professors and top engineers at Google have been trying to make one.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/working-hoverboard-finally-brings-us-back-to-the-future--almost-20141021-119nx7.html |
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