It’s 2015, the year of Marty McFly’s arrival in THE FUTURE, and Hoverboards are finally actually a real thing. Although, they don’t work quite the way Back to the Future II depicted them despite how impressive and magical they seem. That’s not stopping Lexus, though—they’re working on their own magnetic levitation hoverboard just under the wire with Marty’s October arrival approaching. Surely that’s their main concern?
Actual hoverboards use magnetic levitation like Japan’s fancy maglev train to hover over the ground, but they require special surfaces to work. Hendo’s hoverboard has shown this in action already, but the Lexus SLIDE version looks much sleeker—if not quite as ’80s-chic as Marty McFly’s neon pink version.
This brief tease is all we’ve gotten so far, but with the same thing already being done by another company, there’s no reason to doubt Lexus—we already know it can be done. All that’s left now is how they envision moving forward on it as a product. Specially coated hoverboard skate parks as it appears in the video? Hoverboard lanes embedded in bike lanes? Every city on Earth coated in material that will allow them to work anywhere and simultaneously grind society to a halt as we all quit our jobs to hoverboard all day?
Probably the last one, right?
(via Lexus)
Whatever the case, they’re reportedly testing the SLIDE in Spain this summer, and they’ll be releasing new images and video on a weekly basis through Twitter with #LexusHover. They’d better hurry up, though. October is getting close.
(via Business Insider)
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