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Will there be a hoverboard in our lifetimes? (back to the future kind)
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hoverboard question (Original Post)
brettdale
Apr 2012
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. I'm still waiting for the flying cars I was promised... n/t
SamG
(535 posts)2. Quantum Levitation
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)3. My new favorite video
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)4. Yeah, but they only work with a track of magnets underneath it.
I doubt, we will still see hoverboards in this century.
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)6. HEY BOJO... Hoverboards don't work on water... unless you've got power!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)8. Ten bucks you will crash into city-hall.
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)5. man, i really believed it when the kids said that parents' groups
were holding up the release of the hoverboard after BTF2.
Gman
(24,780 posts)7. They should be common in 3 years
I'm going to pre-order a PitBull.
brettdale
(12,381 posts)13. yeah Biff's pitbull
That was awesome.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)9. Good old days of movie making
brettdale
(12,381 posts)10. So no hoverboards then
In our lifetime?
Well that sucks.
Kinda hoped it woudl've happen in my life.
I guess we are too far away from all the tech stuff needed for it?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)11. Almost certainly. YouTube needs more videos of idiots doing stupid shit.
brettdale
(12,381 posts)12. man i would be first in line
If it happens in my lifetime.
Occulus
(20,599 posts)14. You'd need a working countergrav first n/t
brettdale
(12,381 posts)15. a countergrav?
Whats that?