Is The Hoverboard Here?

You shouldn't be taken in by hoaxes.

This is a hoax, period.

No such technology exists, and never has.

Think about what, exactly the "force field" or whatever it is that magically makes this thing float in air. Against what is it pushing? The surface of the earth? Or the ramp, when it flies into the air? How does it magically compensate for different weights?

Why doesn't it fly out from under the person riding it?

Why doesn't it fly into the air and never come back?

No, Grasshopper, it is a hoax.

It's gotta be...I think.

If it was possible though, the kids at MIT would be the ones to do it.

Is it my browser, or have they shut off outside threads from appearing on the front page?

I'll trade you Kram

Well, I had written off skateboarding, but if they were real, I'd be all over it.

Everybody knows that it's the government that's reverse engineering alien technology, not MIT.

I knew it was fake when the Delorean didn't have the flux capacitor!

For sure. They had some old fart playing Doc Brown, too.

Everybody knows this is what the real Doc Brown looks like!

This guy says it's fake, but links a video that I believe is real...and doable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OorkV1bvKs

"No such technology exists, and never has...."

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Well.... didn't I see a thread in here....somewhere... where is it...

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News for 2010 at the MIT Physics Graduate Program ...Geeks of Doom

1. Is Hoverboard Real? HUVr Tech Claims Live Demonstration Of 'Back To The Future' Flying Skateboard [VIDEO]

5 Reasons Why Flying Hoverboards are a Hoax; But is it a Teaser ...

Note that none of the "ream" is named. Just the battery person who very well is real, because she's not part of the "team" but a battery person.

FAKE!!!!

Well, being a hoax, there's no doubt they used trick photography...but the guy in the last link screwed up by trying to explain it.

There's no shadow of a crane.

They'd have make me an entire suit using the same technology, so when I fall, I would float, instead of crashing into the ground.

If they can remove the harness lines digitally, they can remove the crane and its shadow.

Look closely at the shirts of the actors and you can see them stretch by the harness when they "fly".

thats phonier than a 3 dollar bill

AT 3:22 you can clearly see the outrigger and tire of a large mobile crane. Enough said.

I wonder how long it will take them to PhotoChop that out....

The crane is green. With a red pylon and yellow caution tape in front of it. Good catch!

Complete fakery. The guy at around 3:07 to 3:15 is pushing from thin air - his foot/shoe is not touching the ground to propel himself. Even the girl at the end with the guitar sitting on it is 'floating' higher than before with equal body weight! I cannot believe it's going viral on social media. They are probably gonna come out on the 1st April to reveal the hoax. I bet that some old crummy news outlet will air this too.

They have already revealed it as a hoax.. "And Funny Or Die is really sorry about the whole hoverboard thing not being real... for now. "

Bottom of the legal terms link on the Huvr site. http://huvrtech.com/legal.html

The main thing that threw me, was the association with MIT...which has come up with some amazing stuff over the years.

Overall, I would say that it's probably not in MIT's best interests, to have their name used in the perpetuation of hoaxes.

Trick photography can be used for just about anything.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/seeing-things-a-new-transparent-display-system-could-provide-heads-up-data-0121.html

The Muppet Institute of Technology, not be confused with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stands behind their innovation.

Hollywood can make anything seem real on film. All those actors in it should have been a hint. Publicity stunt for the coming of the new Back to the Future movie.

If it was real I think the government would have put a hold on any release. To many military uses. The one that jumps out at me is vertical take off for a fighter jet.

It's fun to think about.

http://thatslikewhoa.com/flying-motorcycle-concept/

this is actually a travel app for your phone. but it COULD be possible if you utilize sonic levitation. but the power supply would be enormous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpnP7nbPAw proof

Tony Hawk confess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFaOogd6YyA

That is obviously faked. I hope they did it for fun and not to scam investors with more money than scientific knowledge.

However, diamagnetic levitation is real. It only works in a small spot with a really strong magnet.

http://www.physics.org/facts/frog-really.asphttp

true, but sonic levitation doesn't require an opposing magnet...

Pyrolytic graphite will support its own weight in a strong magnetic field...

http://www.amazon.com/Diamagnetic-Pyrolytic-Graphite-Levitation-Kit/dp/B000796XSW

My immediate thought was, "This is fake or the military would have taken over and kept it under wraps."

They just turned a ghetto blaster face down, and used acoustic levitation.

Close.

This is cool...........and real.

http://www.wired.com/design/2014/01/whoa-watch-scientists-control-levitating-beads-with-sound-waves/