:D The secret behind the Lexus hoverboard Fr Robert Ballecer, SJ Time to make on for the show ...

[G+_William Tate]

:D The secret behind the Lexus hoverboard. Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ  Time to make on for the show haha

[G+_Jeff Brand]

Superconducting science demo kits for classrooms have been available since the '90s. Perhaps a finger-hoverboard is in order. :D

 

The video showed the one thing that I thought was a hoax about the video: with no friction, changing direction around a turn as suddenly as they do should be impossible. This video shows that there's a mag-lev track under the skate park, giving the skater a very limited area to actually use when making a turn.

[G+_David Wiggins]

They must have added power for those. . . it went over water.

[G+_Jeff Brand]

If you recall, inertia worked. It's acceleration that's the problem. I suppose Marty could have used a paddle just as well.

 

(Yeah, I'm no fun. :D)

[G+_William Tate]

Yeah, I was going to make the joke about going over water too :)

[G+_David Wiggins]

I'm glad I'm not the only one.  Still, magnet powered hover tech has been in use a while, I saw another video somewhere (KH?) of the same type of thing, though I think it had a wider area of motion on the halfpipe.  I think the horsepower (so to speak) on that one mus have been in the pipe rather than the board.  Still, superconducting/supercooling tech is moving forward a bit more, so smaller scale applications are really popping up (or back up).