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04-21-2017, 11:31 AM
3 companies that actually built real-life hoverboards
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Movie fans and tech geeks alike have long shared a common dream: a chance to ride on Marty McFly's hoverboard (http://mashable.com/category/hoverboard/), just like in Back to the Future Part II (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyLnWm1iCs).*
When the date portrayed in the movie, October 21, 2015, came and passed, though, the gadgets we most commonly thought of as hoverboards had two wheels and a propensity to explode (http://mashable.com/2016/04/16/rise-and-fall-hoverboard/), which definitely wasn't the future any of us were envisioning the first time we saw that iconic hoverboard chase sequence.*
But levitating skateboards are already here. They might **t anywhere near as commonplace as the Back to the Future universe foretold, but that doesn't mean the tech will never reach the streets (or at least a few inches above them) IRL. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/3-real-hoverboard-companies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Movie fans and tech geeks alike have long shared a common dream: a chance to ride on Marty McFly's hoverboard (http://mashable.com/category/hoverboard/), just like in Back to the Future Part II (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyLnWm1iCs).*
When the date portrayed in the movie, October 21, 2015, came and passed, though, the gadgets we most commonly thought of as hoverboards had two wheels and a propensity to explode (http://mashable.com/2016/04/16/rise-and-fall-hoverboard/), which definitely wasn't the future any of us were envisioning the first time we saw that iconic hoverboard chase sequence.*
But levitating skateboards are already here. They might **t anywhere near as commonplace as the Back to the Future universe foretold, but that doesn't mean the tech will never reach the streets (or at least a few inches above them) IRL. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/3-real-hoverboard-companies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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