Millions of Back to the Future fans are hovering in excitement as number one skateboarder Tony Hawk has ditched his traditional set of wheels for a magnetic field to get a chance to test ride the world’s first real hoverboard.
A hoverboard imagined in the classic Back to the Future trilogy in the late 1980s and created a herd of fans who chased after the idea of being suspended by a physical force against gravity.
Now, without the use of any special effects, The RIDE Channel’s Dave Carnie and Tony Hawk tested out the new technological marvel at Hendo company lab in in Los Gatos, California.
Testing out the 18th prototype of the Hendo Hoverboard, the world champion, Hawk glided about 1 inch above Earth’s surface.
“The thing is really hard to ride. Even Tony had a lot of difficulty trying to figure it out,” Carnie wrote in an article in Ride Chanel about the experience. “The expression on his face was priceless. The great Tony Hawk was confused. I could tell what he was thinking: ‘I’m a skateboarder. I ride skateboards. I ride surfboards, snowboards, skimboards. Why can’t I ride this board?’”
The magic behind the hoverboard relies on specially designed four disc-shaped hover engines with opposing magnetic field that provides the lift…. see more
source: RT
Tags: Skateboarder Tony Jawk, technology, Test ride
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