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Yesterday’s future, today!

Marty McFly, eat your heart out. Dreams of cruising around on a hoverboard are becoming closer to coming true.

Hendo Hoverboards, started by husband and wife duo Greg and Jill Henderson, is the company behind the world’s first working hoverboard and have successfully made a fully functional prototype.

The prototype hoverboard floats about an inch above the ground and uses four disk-shaped “hover engines” to generate its lift. The engines use magnetic power to generate levitation, a technology similar to that used in MagLev trains.

Greg Henderson calls his hoverboard’s core magnetic technology Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA) which allows the hoverboard to magnetically float around smoothly and fluidly.

Unfortunatly, There will be no long days of cruising around the streets of Hill Valley, California on the current prototype. As of right now, the Hendo Hoverboard only floats over surfaces made of non-ferrous metals, like copper or aluminum, and it’s battery only lasts for about 15 minutes.

For now, the hoverboard will really only be able to be used at specially designed hoverparks, which are just like normal skate parks but made using non-ferrous metal surfaces instead of wood and concrete.

This is only the beginning though, Hendo Hoverboards is currently looking for funding through their Kickstarter page, whose goal of reaching $250,000 by december has nearly already been reached.

Pledging $10,000 to the kickstarter will net you your very own hoverboard. If that is out of your price range you can always pledge a modest $1000 for an extended ride at Hendo Hoverboards very own hover park and a lesson in hoverboarding. If that is still too much, you can pledge a mere $100 for a 5 minute ride at the Hendo Hoverboards hoverpark.

Along with the hoverboard, Hendo is also offering what they call “the whitebox developer kit” which you can get starting at a pledge of $299. The whitebox gives aspiring tinkerers all the tools they need to start creating their own inventions using the MFA technology.

The whitebox may be even more exciting than the hoverboard itself. In it contains all the technology of the hoverboard, just in a smaller, more affordable package. Its purpose is to give people the ability to create anything they want with in incredible MFA technology.
“We want to see what YOU can do with our technology. You can use it for hovering, or for applications we haven’t even imagined” says Greg Henderson on the Hendo Kickstarter page.

The Hendo Hoverboard is set to be released on all to appropriate date October 21st, 2015. Doc Brown would be proud.

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