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CNET is reporting that Lexus has created a working Hoverboard.
The Japanese car maker released a short promotional video of what it's calling a "real, rideable hoverboard" to its YouTube channel on Tuesday, ever so briefly showing off the prototype to the world.
The clip begins with several seconds of a skateboarder riding along who then stops and slowly walks over to a Lexus-branded hoverboard that would make Marty McFly jealous. Of course, the clip ends right as the rider's about to step onto the hoverboard, so we don't actually see the craft in action, but it's a promising first step from an unexpected source.
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We'll learn more about the company's plans for the prototype on October 21, the day Marty McFly, Jennifer Parker and Doc Brown went back to the future in the second installment of the film. Maybe Lexus will have some drone dog-walkers to show off as well.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 26 2015, @03:44PM
Why is it smoking?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Friday June 26 2015, @03:48PM
Liquid nitrogen to cool the magnets down. The magnetic field locking mechanism doesn't work otherwise.
(Score: 1) by timbojones on Friday June 26 2015, @03:53PM
It's steaming -- or sublimating -- because the magnets have to be supercooled in order to work. Look up "quantum locking".
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 26 2015, @04:01PM
Which makes me wonder, if the coolant is escaping, how long do you get before you need to "refuel"?
And how easy is it to get your hands on liquid nitrogen.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Funny) by Alfred on Friday June 26 2015, @04:11PM
(Score: 2) by snick on Friday June 26 2015, @04:13PM
Just go to your local mall. You will find a teenager using it to make overpriced ice cream.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 26 2015, @04:28PM
And then what? Steal his Dippin' Dots freezer?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @04:38PM
Actually it's condensing. What you see is a mist of water vapor from the surrounding air being cooled by the still cold sublimating coolant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:00PM
If it is LN2, it's boiling, not sublimating.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @10:21PM
It is and you're right. What you see is the condensation though.