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Lexus has been drip-feeding us information about its fancy new hoverboard for months, now but the main event is finally here. In a video released today, we finally get to see the hoverboard in action, with a rider on top, cruising around in its specially-built skatepark.
Yes, it's kind of a trick. Yes, it only works on a very special track. No, it is not going to be for sale. But damned if it is not wildly awesome regardless.
The video features the hoverboard straight up shredding along the magnetic track in its purpose-built skatepark, ridden by pro-skater Ross McGouran who had this to say about skating without wheels:
I've spent 20 years skateboarding, but without friction it feels like I've had to learn a whole new skill, particularly in the stance and balance in order to ride the hoverboard. It's a whole new experience
The official reveal of the hoverboard also comes with official technical details about how it works—which is "basically exactly how we thought ." The skatepark where the hoverboard was tested sports 200 meters of buried magnetic track for the board to react against, meanwhile the board itself contains "two 'cryostats'―reservoirs in which superconducting material is kept at -197degrees through immersion in liquid nitrogen," according to Lexus.
And that's about all she wrote. This is one cool little ad but ultimately that's all it is; there is no hoverboard coming to a skatepark near you, at least not yet. But face it, you can break your ankles just fine on a standard park deck.
