Everybody knows that by far the coolest part of Back to the Future: Part II is the scene where Marty McFly escapes his arch-nemesis by zooming through the air on his rad Mattel hoverboard. And every year since then, we've said to ourselves, “Well, where are our hoverboards? We were promised hoverboards!”
Well, now Science has finally said “OK. “
Jill and Greg Henderson, the founders of Hendo, released a video today featuring their prototype hoverboard. The clip starts out sappy, with a kid superglueing Superman to a skateboard and then seemingly asking his genius scientist dad to make him a real one. And then his dad does, because apparently it was that easy.