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, 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...