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Yes. Back to the Future: Sclog reports that a Hoverboard, ridden by Canadian inventor of Romanian descent Catalin Alexandru Duru, has broken the Guinness World Records record and delivers realistic performance targets!
Seriously, it looks like this is the equivalent of the Wright Brothers flight!
From the Guinness article:
Catalin reaches a height of 5 metres on his prototype hoverboard covering a distance of over twice that of two full sized football pitches before gently landing in the exquisite waters of Lake Ouareau in Quebec, Canada. He claims that the machine, which he built and designed over the course of 12 months, can be used anywhere and can reach 'scary heights' which he would like to potentially explore in the near future.
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(Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:34AM
... set this back 30 years while the automotive industry figures out how to preserve their obsolete business model.
What obsolete business model is that? I will replace my car with a hoverboard when the latter can carry rolls of galvanised steel fence mesh, bricks from the builders merchant, planks from the timber merchant, old washing machines to the scrapyard, rolls of carpet, 3-year-olds, grandmothers, anyone else in my circle incapable of learning to fly or drive - oh, and pull tree roots out of the ground. Just to mention a few things I've done recently.
The hoverboard would have evolved into a flying car by then, so that won't be long, will it?