Lexus SLIDE hoverboard makes appearance

Lexus has unveiled a real, working hoverboard, similar to one featured in the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part II *. The SLIDE, a skateboard without wheels, allows a rider to hover millimetres off the ground
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SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Company commercial appears to show hoverboard levitating above concrete surface of skatepark

SLIDE

Bamboo surface

In reality, SLIDE can only levitate while riding over magnetic track

Cryostat reservoirs: Superconducting material immersed in liquid nitrogen kept at -197°C

Liquid nitrogen vents

Magnetic track: Hidden under wooden structure, painted to look like concrete

Magnetic field:Permanent magnets in track effectively “frozen” into superconductors in board – allowing board to hover

Professional skateboarder Ross McGouran rides in scene from promotional video
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Source and picture: Lexus International *Movie largely set in year 2015

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