How hard can it be to create a skateboard like device that floats freely above ground, defying gravity and all other forms of logic? Like flying cars, the T-1000 and time travel, the hoverboard is one example of how smart people are seriously lagging on the whole awesome inventions of the future narrative. It’s 2015 now. This is the future. I should be thinking this article into existence on a 3-D floating screen in an office that I commuted to on a board that makes lava tag a completely obsolete game to my future grandchildren. Seriously science, stop screwing around already.
In the meantime, we’ll have to settle for this latest rendition of the hoverboard concept. It’s called the Hoverboard, and it’s created by Hoverboard Technologies. So I can only assume they’re hard at work bringing my actual requests to life. When Lexus revealed their board earlier this year plenty of people threw a fit that it wasn’t technically a hoverboard. And we can make the same gripes about this version as it clearly draws on the futuristic device’s name to perk up our ears, when in reality it’s a rad mono-skateboard-on-a-giant-mecanical-rollerblade-wheel. Either there was already a patent on the more explicit and honest name I’ve suggested or the inventor thinks we don’t know how gravity works.
Nonetheless it looks really cool. At a top speed of 20 mph I’m convinced there are still plenty of shenanigans to get into with this thing, keeping us all occupied until the next hoverboard is revealed. So I’ll apologize here to Hoverboard Technologies for my public gripes. With more than 130 backers and counting on their Kickstarter campaign this awesome gadget is well on its way to becoming a real thing. I’m pulling for them. I think what they’re doing is awesome, and I’ll think they’re really awesome when version 2.0 flies.
