First appearing on our screens in the 1980s, the hoverboard has
been the dream of kids everywhere. It's magical ability to seamlessly take you
from one place to another, completely unhindered by the surface over which you
travel. Seeing Marty McFly hover over a pond on a childs converted scooter
sparked something in everyone, people started to consider it as possible. It's
only right that in 2015 we have come a step closer, as it is the year in the
future Marty and the Professor visit. hoverboard
In 2015 (for real), hoverboards do actually exist! Don't get too
excited, however... There does need to be a fair amount of things in place for
it to 'hover', as such. Lexus famously made a hoverboard for their advert, as
part of an ad series to do with technology. Their board needed a metal track to
run above and a good serving of liquid nitrogen every now and then, it's not
quite as practical as Marty's just yet. The other hoverboard being worked on
(which actually hovers above the ground, anyway) is a bit better, needing only
a metal skatepark to run above. Unfortunately, there is no way to control the
direction of travel on this board, but it's a step in the right direction.
The hoverboards I am referring to is the 2 wheeled, self balancing
kind. They were first seen in action at the Canton Fair in China, a popular
technology fair which has lots of new and cool gadgets being shown off by their
producers / inventors. Granted, it got a lot of attention, but clearly no-one
quite knew what it was going to become. In the early months of 2015, they hit
the Western world and exploded to fame with a few clever product placements.
Justin Bieber and Chris Brown were seen with the boards, and the rest is
history! IO HAWK, one of the original importers of the hoverboard, had sent a
board or 2 to Justin and his clan completely free of charge, which has since
paid itself off quite nicely.
Wheels have always been an integral part of skateboarding and yet this is all about to change as the era of the Hoverboard is ushered in. Remember wheels on the ground cause friction and that means slower boards. The whole idea of the hoverboard is to reduce friction and increase speed like a hockey puck on an air-hockey table. When wheels are involved the boards are slower and will be much less maneuverable and of course this directly corresponds with a decrease in the fun factor. hoverboards
If you will recall in the Hollywood Movie "Back to The Future
II" there were no wheels on the hoverboards and you can see the increased
exhilaration that the rider experienced. Of course as skateboards turn to hover
boards in the interim skateboards will most likely do some of both; that is to
say they will be more like Hover Board Combos.
For a full transition of skateboards to hover boards we must ditch
the wheels, but this will not be as easy as it sounds. Indeed, we may even see
frictionless wheels without bearings which will really increase the speed and
performance of skateboards. Magnetic wheels if introduced before Hoverboards
may lengthen the time to full adoption of hoverboards by as much as a decade.
This is because something as revolutionary as frictionless wheels will give the
skateboard new life blood to keep the industry sector going with increased
sales, sponsorship and marketing dollars.
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Any leap-frog technologies will then need to out perform the new
skateboards with magnetic friction-less wheels by quite a bit to cause consumer
migration to those new technologies. Still the first hoverboards for the
skateboard market will most likely have to incorporate the friction-less wheels
if they become available prior to wide spread hoverboard use. Therefore it
appears that although these two technologies are diametrically opposed and
competing, they also can compliment each other.
It's official. The future is now. Why? Not on account of space
travel, not because of water-resistant cellular phones, or even just those
brand-new cell phone watches. No, we have finally reached "the
future" because, after many years of patiently waiting and plenty of phony
products, actual hoverboards are officially an actual thing. A company called
Hendo has brought our Marty McFly-inspired ambitions to wonderful reality, and
they recently let Tony Hawk have a go on their own great design. hoverboard
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You have to have a Tony Hawk-sized bank account to get your hands
on one of these bad boys. Don't believe me? A 5-minute ride (with assistance
from Hendo staff) costs you one hundred bucks, a duplicate board without a
hover engine (so just a bit of fancy wood, really) will set you back $449, and
an actual hoverboard is $10,000. Sure, that's a ton of money, but concurrently,
it's a freaking hoverboard, one which you might essentially own and ride at any
moment. It's time for you to start saving!
The hovering action isn't as severe as Marty McFly's board. The
Hendo Hoverboards will hover about an inch above the ground. I've seen several
negative people out there, whining how the hovering action is small. I'd much
like to remind you that this is known as a first gen hoverboard, knowing that
the one inch Hendo lets you hover is precisely one inch more than we've had
with anything prior to the introduction of the Hendo Hoverboard. Now you simply
need some of Marty's ill kicks to totally supply you to hover in fashion. At
this time there's also a completely new hoverboard obtainable on the current market(sort
of). It's kind of like a hoverboard but it's called a mini segway, and the cool
thing about it is, no handlebars are equipped on it and you've likely have
noticed it once or twice! These awesome two-wheeled electric scooters move with
the use of your legs only, so no steering is needed at all. With these mini
segway hoverboards surfacing around the world, it makes us think how quick and
rapid times are changing and what on earth is next for technology. There are
numerous places where the mini segway is for sale, so if you're interested
check at any local electronic store! Hendo is actually in the works right now
to constructing the 2nd gen hoverboard and they said they believe to launch it
by 2017. So if you're looking ahead to getting your hands on a hoverboard or
should I say legs than support Hendo! This hoverboard is perfect for ALL
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