Hoverboard Lexus - a step closer to the future Marty McFly

Lexus has finally officially unveiled last series Amazing in Motion project. Hoverboard, over which the company has worked half the year and showed only a small teaser proved absolutely real, and two professional skateboarders have proved it in the new video. Revision "MakRadara" figured out how to work the new product and why the future has not yet been as close as it seems.

The second part of the trilogy "Back to the Future" in 1989 caused many teenagers of the time jealous of the protagonist, travel around the world in the future levitating skateboard. After 26 years, these dreams begin to be implemented, and the Lexus company, known primarily due to the production of automobiles, showed its vision hoverboard, which helped create the IFW Dresden Institute and a subsidiary of Evico, specializing in magnetic technology levitation.

If you follow the development of technology "flying boards" then, of course, remember various combinations Skateboard and quadrocopter and even quite close in their Hendo concept of money on the creation of which

collected on Kickstarter. Fundamental differences between it and the novelty of three: hoverboard Lexus beautiful, it is more difficult to fly, and mass production is not planned, as opposed to small-scale predecessor.

Technologies were also similar: to bamboo board with superconductors under it could take off, need a surface with a special coating. This has so far only in a special "hover-park" in Barcelona, ​​which is located under 200 meters of the magnetic track. Inside the new items - superconductors enclosed in cryogenic chamber that provides hoverboard spectacular clouds of steam. Keeping constant temperature not higher than -197 °, the cooling system ensures the interaction of the conductors and magnets under the track, the repulsive effect of which is sufficient to move over the surface even on the board water.

I have devoted 20 years of skateboarding, but hoverboard, which hovers above the surface without friction, I had to re-learn to keep the correct posture and maintain balance. This is a completely new experience.

Ross Makguran

To test the new items Lexus invited Ross Makgurana - multiple champion in skateboarding world. And even for him hoverboard it was too unusual and difficult to manage. Whatever it was, the company did not plan to release a full-fledged news, leaving her prototype in a single copy.