So the Hoverboard is a Thing

[Maddiekinns]

http://jalopnik.com/the-lexus-hoverboard-is-real-and-i-rode-it-1721876528

Lexus created a hoverboard. It's pretty sick, sadly it wont be marketed any time soon.

So according to bloomberg.com 

[Lexus's hoverboard] uses magnetic levitation, or maglev, to achieve frictionless movement. Liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductors are combined with a magnetic surface to essentially repel gravity _{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-04/here-s-how-the-lexus-hoverboard-actually-works}

Marty McFly said it pretty nicely, "History's gonna change"

What do you guys think? Good/bad idea?

[Maddiekinns]

It looks rad, but right now it's only a novelty. Hopefully decades from now they'll improve it so they can be used anywhere, run on rechargeable batteries, and are affordable.

Next they should invent a time machine.

Yeah it isn't going to be a thing for a whiiillleeee. Good idea though, could you imagine an injury from one of those things?

[Maddiekinns]

Eh, they don't seem that much more dangerous to use than regular skateboards. Although now I kinda wanna know what it feels like to have a hoverboard hover over you.

Dude that would be fuckin sweet tbh

[fromchmm]

And soon we'll have self-driving cars...