Artist creates Back to the Future hoverboard -- that actually hovers (video)
By Sean Hollister 
posted May 28th 2010 5:14PM
posted May 28th 2010 5:14PM
posted May 28th 2010 5:14PM
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Don't expect to ride it on solid ground -- much less water -- but what you see above is indeed a hoverboard that floats. Using electromagnets embedded in the podium and a laser system to measure its position, artist Nils Guadagnin has managed to keep a familiar-looking pink plank aloft. I was asked to write a research paper based on this by my professor. I need someone who can help with custom writing service
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I've gut toe say I'm working on making real version of this. I reckon it's 15 years away.
You can make a simpler version with Bismuth. Naturaly Diamagnetic materials are sweet.
Art. Art is a beautiful thing. But where is the art in taking a concept you've seen in a 20 year old movie and replicating it in a extremely limited way? Sometimes art is very hard to grasp.
ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS!!?
in maybe 5 or 10 years we will see this commonplace in schools lockers, and it will be a new craze like the rubix cube was!
YAY for retrocausality
didnt read all the comments but like most said its magnets....+sie of magnet to - side makes them attract and pull eachother together ..ithink - to - or + to + repel each other. Anyway itsa POS
lets see this thing on the floor, or outside on the street in action. the thing is, there is that tall pillar and possibly a magnet bent to a certain degree on top of it, which is what is keeping this magnetic board in balance. you all know what happens when you put two negative magnets together right?
@blackspaces
You know what happens if you actually read the article before commenting? You don't sound like the idiot you are.
@Air Force One
that its a electromagnetic system with a laser stabilizing the board in the air. yah, thats possible. but so is my theory too.
not impressed until it can ride on the ground.
Notice how he was extremely careful to push straight down? I think it has no ability to correct side to side (X axis, not roll) movement. Give this thing an ever so slight tap to the side and I think it'll fall of the podium. Still, really really cool.
Imagine the skating rink possibilities...
@Plothole
One more thing...you forgot the Nike Air Mag sneakers ^^
I remember back when Back to the future 2 came out! They promised that by the 2000 it would be real... Among other empty promises, what a crocc
@dscott5683
They've been too busy playing video games.