The skateboard without wheels Marty McFly (character played by Michael J. Fox) used in the scenes of Back to the Future II at the end of the 1980s, is ready to be marketed. The movie went up in 2015 and it seems that reality will confirm the fiction.
Created by Pax startup Arx, California, the Hoverboard Hendo (which holds the designation used in the film) supports up to 136 pounds and has enough room for seven minutes of battery use. The machine works on magnetic fields, which in contact with metal surfaces, generate force to ward off the skateboard 2.5 cm from the floor. Once lifted into the air, the Hoverboard Hendo can quickly slide in various directions.
To build this skate, the company launched 21 October a campaign on Kickstarter, a website for crowdfundig , with the aim of raising $ 250,000 (about 196,000 euros) until 15 December. But on Saturday, a month before the deadline, have managed to almost double: $ 445,399 (357,000 euros), funded by 2721 people
The first ten Hoverboards are already pre-sold and scheduled delivery. to October 2015. Each one costs ten thousand dollars (eight thousand euros). For those who can not shell out that much money, there are other options. For example, for a hundred dollars can walk for five minutes on a skateboard
Speaking to AFP, the Director-General of Pax Arx, Greg Henderson, explained how the technology works:. “We have created a magnetic field and then through an induction method which is our secret recipe, we created an equivalent secondary magnetic field in the conducting surfaces “.
Henderson estimated that this technology can have various applications, in particular in the design buildings resistant to earthquakes – an interesting prospect in California, US region with high seismic activity. In theory, using more powerful magnetic fields, it is possible to make a building slightly floated above the ground, minimizing the damage resulting from the earthquake.
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