Hoverboard
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A hoverboard is a fictitious skateboard-like vehicle seen in the films Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III, and video games such as Hoverboard ASDF, EyeToy: Antigrav, and Rocket Power: Beach Bandits. The main difference with a "modern, real" skateboard is that a hoverboard does not have or require wheels to operate, and floats in mid-air. In the movie, the hoverboard was invented before the year 2015. While they are capable of floating above either land or water, hoverboards lose motive power when travelling over water.
Although director Robert Zemeckis once jokingly said during an interview that hoverboards were real, the principles for a working hoverboard are currently beyond our knowledge.
Rumors were circulating around the Internet in 2001 that inventor Dean Kamen's new invention (codenamed "It") was to be a form of transportation resembling a hoverboard. It turned out instead to be a gyroscopic 2-wheeled, electric-powered stand-up scooter called the Segway Human Transporter.
It is also rumored that Mattel took and own the copyright to the 'hoverboard' when the movie was released.