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A hoverboard (or hover board) is a fictional levitating board used for personal transportation, first described in science-fiction, and made famous by the appearance of a skateboard-like hoverboard in the film Back to the Future Part II (1989). Many attempts have been made to invent a functioning hoverboard.
Key facts
- Fictional artifact.name
- Hoverboard
- Fictional artifact.image
- San Diego Comic-Con 2011 - Marty's Back to the Future II hoverboard (Profiles in History booth).jpg
- Fictional artifact.caption
- Fictional Mattel hoverboard used by the character Marty McFly in both Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990).
- Fictional artifact.source
- Back to the Future
- Fictional artifact.source_type
- films
- Fictional artifact.company
- Amblin Entertainment
- Fictional artifact.first
- Back to the Future Part II
- Fictional artifact.creator
- Robert Zemeckis Bob Gale
- Fictional artifact.genre
- Science-fiction
- Fictional artifact.type
- Personal transport
- Fictional artifact.uses
- Personal transportation similar to a skateboard, but using a magnetic means of levitation instead of wheels.
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- In fiction
- Prototypes
- Air cushion or ground effect
- Magnetic
- Other
- Guinness records
- In popular culture
- ''Back to the Future''
- Other
- See also
- References
- External links
A hoverboard (or hover board) is a fictional levitating board used for personal transportation, first described in science-fiction, and made famous by the appearance of a skateboard-like hoverboard in the film Back to the Future Part II (1989). Many attempts have been made to invent a functioning hoverboard.
==In fiction== Hoverboards were first described by author M. K. Joseph in a 1967 science fiction novel. In 1984, a hoverboard appeared in the shoot 'em up arcade video game SWAT, developed by Coreland and distributed by Sega in Japan and Bally Midway in North America.
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