BREAKTHROUGH: 'Back to the Future' Hoverboard Invented

Hook on, folks, you won’t believe what you’re about to hear. A couple of engineers out in California have successfully invented a hoverboard. Or at least something extremely close to it. They’re calling it the world’s first viable hoverboard, and as you can see in this video, it look a lot like the skateboard version we came to know and love in Back to the Future.

Greg and Jill Henderson were ecstatic when they finally made their ultimate discovery. After a series of failures, 17 to be exact, their 18th hoverboard prototype finally did what they wanted it to. A Magnetic Field floor system works together with the Hover Engine – powered gliding machine, to produce the magic of the levitating skateboard.

But McFly, those boards don’t work on water! That’s just one of the many scientific challenges still facing Hendo, in their quest to build the perfect hoverboard. There’s also some struggles dealing with short battery life, and right now, the board can ONLY work on top of a magnetic ground floor.

The designers insist, that within the proper parameters, the board can float and move, just like Marty McFly’s. And Hendo’s hoverboard can be yours for the price of 10 thousand dollars. For a smaller fee of just 7 hundred dollars, you can buy a White Box Developer Kit, a mini Hendo Hover Engine that can float atop it’s own pre-packaged surface material. All of the proceeds are funnelling through their Kickstarter project right now, as the couple works to build their completed product by December, 2015. Just in time for the holidays. One thing’s for sure, that’s a Christmas present that will have your kids saying, “Great Scott!”