VIDEO: Don’t panic Back to the Future fans, Lexus just built a working HOVERBOARD
MOTOR giant Lexus has teased Back to the Future fans with a video of a functional hoverboard.
In 1989, Back to the Future Part II predicted 2015 would be the year we all got automatically adjusting jackets and hoverboards.
Unfortunately – despite it already being late June – we have yet to see any of this high tech gadgetry hit the shelves.
Until now.
Lexus this morning unveiled a video featuring a futuristic, floating skateboard.
Lexus claims its hoverboard has been in the works for almost two years
Best of all, the luxury car manufacturer claims the YouTube clip is not a publicity stunt.
The firm claims the hoverboard concept has been in the works for almost two years.
Lexus appears to be using a similar system to Hendo – which produced a skateboard which floated by using magnets.
The Hendo Hoverboard – which carried a breath-taking price tag of $10,000, some £6,000 – employed four disc-shaped engines tot generate a special magnetic field
Unfortunately, this meant the Hendo board would only work on a metallic platform.
However – the Lexus hoverbaord appears to be able to float over a range of surfaces.
The firm has yet to release a price or release date for the board, but fingers crossed it will arrive before Marty McFly in October.
