We may yet have our hoverboards, or something like them

[Grey Havoc]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/japanese-scientists-levitate-objects-with-sound-194752414.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyLnWm1iCs

 

[sublight_]

But I wonder how far one could scale this up....

 

[Grey Havoc]

In another development, again from Japan:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11695267/Lexus-has-created-a-real-rideable-hoverboard.html

 

[Dragon029]

Dang:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/23/lexus-slide-hoverboard-magnets-teaser/

Update: We got in touch with Lexus, and confirmed that like the other examples we've seen, there is a metal surface underneath the skate park shown here -- it's real, but you won't be riding this thing just anywhere).

 

[mrmalaya]

It's nuts! Hoverboards and hoverbikes in one day!

 

[Flyaway]

It's nuts! Hoverboards and hoverbikes in one day!

The hover bike seems a more practical vehicle than this, if this needs metal on the ground to work.

 

[covert_shores]

Fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb1NCr9PbHQ

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TnqBM_KUyE
http://toyland.gizmodo.com/you-can-now-pre-order-an-obscenely-expensive-but-workin-1749602238

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/24/10663228/arcaspace-arcaboard-hoverboard-skateboard

Something of a brute force approach, but still interesting.​

 

[Abraham Gubler]

Hoverboard? Learn to SURF you Marty "Chicken" McFlies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWW1FeT1EyQ

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/16/04/17/213236/flying-jet-powered-hoverboard-now-a-reality
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/15/11439798/franky-zapata-racing-jet-powered-flying-hoverboard-interview

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://jalopnik.com/this-hoverboard-actually-flies-and-it-just-set-a-world-1774106777

http://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-hoverboard-weve-all-been-dreaming-of-1774176409

EDIT:
https://youtu.be/hsn-qWB4Ey4

 

[Flyaway]

Back to the Future: Company Looks to Sell Hoverboards to Military

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2016/08/04/back-future-company-looks-sell-hoverboards-military/88068520/