Hoverboard

This article covers the fictional vehicle. For the real electrically operated roller boards see E-Board .

Hoverboard from Back to the Future II

As a hoverboard is called himself floating Skateboards . The name comes from the science fiction comedy Back to the Future II from 1989. In it, the main character Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox , uses such a hoverboard in 2015 (from the point of view of the film, the future). The hoverboard can be seen again in the film Back to the Future III . In the films, Mattel is the manufacturer.

Since 2015, the term hoverboard has been misleadingly used for self-balancing e-boards that move on small wheels or rollers .

Implementation in Back to the Future II and III

For the film Back to the Future II and III , boards were attached to wire ropes and swung around with cranes. The wire ropes were then retouched later. Sometimes simply clever camera perspectives were chosen in which the feet were not visible. Conventional, slightly raised skateboards were also used and the wheels retouched.

Cultural reception

The name has found its way into culture, so that corresponding fictional self-floating skateboards have been called this time and again. Hoverboards appear in various video games , mostly in special game modes, such as Streak: Hoverboard Racing by Atari, Inc. (2003) , Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001), Ratchet & Clank 3 (2004), Crossfire (2007), Unreal Tournament 3 (2007), The Sims 3 (2009), Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and Subway Surfers (2012).

In several films, the idea of ​​the hoverboard is quoted, or they appear explicitly. In the film Highlander II - The Return (1991), the hoverboard from Back to the Future II was the template for the "flying skateboard" that Connor MacLeod used to kill an assassin. In the film Futuresport (1998), among other things, hoverboards will be available to "athletes" in 2025.

In the series The Goldbergs (since 2013) the 8th episode of the 2nd season is entitled I Rode a Hoverboard .

Technical implementation attempts

Lexus Hoverboard SLIDE model at the IAA in Frankfurt 2015

Since then, there have been technical implementation attempts again and again and, according to the model, are also referred to by the manufacturers as hoverboards. The best known work with levitation and superconductors . Several manufacturers have released prototypes since 2014. What many have in common is that they need a magnetic background to function.

Concepts of skateboard-like boards with propellers or, as in the case of the flyboard with a strong downward jet of water and the kerosene- powered Flyboard Air , were also referred to by the press as hoverboards. An example of this is the ARCA board, which was presented in December 2015 and developed by the Romanian-US company ARCA Space Corporation , which can hover a hand's breadth above the ground via 36 battery-operated nozzles and reach a maximum speed of 20 km / h. You can drive a maximum of six minutes on one battery charge, which corresponds to a range of 2 km.

literature

• Liam Ryan: Dammit Science, Where's My Hoverboard? Hilarious Visions of the Future from the Past. 2013
• Dave Shakespeare: Hoverboard: The Hope.
• Andrew Magdy Kamal: The Hoverboard DIY Guide. 2014
• Lance Winslow: Future Hoverboards - Skateboards for the Twenty First Century. Lance Winslow Future Concept Series, 2012
• Mitty Walters et al. a .: Breaking Gravity. 2014

Technical implementation

• Steve Brown: HUVr: Are These Back To The Future Hoverboards Real? Steve Brown Examines. In: TECHNOLOGY. 2014
• Cameron Chan: Feasibility Analysis for Electrically-Powered Hoverboard. Diss. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Hoverboard  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Science fiction technology: a magnetic field causes the skateboard to float over metal. spiegel.de
• Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (Ed.): You can do that with your hoverboard. bmvit-Infothek, October 22, 2015 (recommendations for personal safety equipment and the regulations for using a hoverboard in Austria).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan-Keno Janssen: "Hoverboard" in the test: life-threatening defects. In: Heise online . December 14, 2015, accessed December 31, 2015 . 
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=456pC92Ubig Back to the Future Part 2 "Behind the Scenes" Creating Hoverboards
3. ↑ D. Gregory Henderson et al .: Hoverboard. US Patent Application 14 / 639,045, 2015.
4. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard
5. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zurueck-in-die-Zukunft-Lexus-stell-eigenes-Hoverboard-Slide-vor-2771358.html
6. ↑ Cameron Chan: Feasibility Analysis for Electrically-Powered Hoverboard. Diss. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2012.
7. ↑ http://www.trendsderzukunft.de/rekord-neues-hoverboard-fliegt-ganze-300-meter/2015/05/23/
8. ↑ http://www.charentelibre.fr/2015/07/27/hoverboard-une-planche-filante-a-roullet,2009569.php
9. ↑ FOCUS Online: record attempt with hoverboard: man fails with crossing the English Channel. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
10. ↑ ArcaBoard: The first real hoverboard? gizmag.com
11. ↑ ARCA Board - revolution in motion ARCA space agency