Lexus has today revealed it is working on a prototype hoverboard. If you are familiar with a particular movie franchise of the late 1980s, this should make you deliriously happy.
Yep, Lexus's project team has collaborated with "experts in super-conductive technology" to build an actual, working, real-life hoverboard. No joke.
They tell us the team is using magnetic levitation with liquid nitrogen-cooled super-conductors and permanent magnets to "give the hoverboard frictionless movement of a kind that had been thought impossible".
Impossible? Not unless you've watched Back to the Future II several, several times.
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