• Question: Can you make a hover board

    Asked by 597curm28 to Matthew, K, Hazel on 13 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: K Sasitharan

      K Sasitharan answered on 13 Mar 2018:

      As of now it is not possible to make self-levitating stuff like hover boards for transport. But I am sure that sometime in the future we will be able to.

    • Photo: Hazel Gibson

      Hazel Gibson answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      Yes, you can (kinda)! In 2015 a company called Lexus made a hoverboard that worked using magnets and superconductors, just in time for Back To The Future Day (when we caught up with the date Marty McFly travelled forward to in BTTF2). To be fair this hoverboard wasn’t the first and does run on a track, rather than just floating about wherever (that would be cool, but so far has not been done). But still, it looked a lot like fun to me!!

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