The
Lexus division of the Toyota automobile company in Japan announced
it made a prototype for a hoverboard - a floating skateboard without
wheels. Lexus combined a superconductor, made of cooled liquid nitrogen,
and a magnet that does not need to charge to create the board. The
surface of the board is natural bamboo.
The hoverboard, called “Slide,” looks like the ones in the science-fiction
movie Back to the Future and the animated film Super Board.
Lexus said
it made the hoverboard as a prototype to promote technology and
innovation, but has no plans to commercialize the board right now.
However, Lexus will test how the board functions in Barcelona, Spain
this summer. “When technology, design, and imagination come together,
amazing things can be achieved,” Lexus tweeted.
Lexus is not the first company to produce a type of hoverboard.
Last year, a California-based company called Arx Pax also made and
sold its own version.
The
Lexus division of the Toyota automobile company in Japan announced
it made a prototype for a hoverboard - a floating skateboard without
wheels. Lexus combined a superconductor, made of cooled liquid nitrogen,
and a magnet that does not need to charge to create the board. The
surface of the board is natural bamboo. 
Lexus said
it made the hoverboard as a prototype to promote technology and
innovation, but has no plans to commercialize the board right now.
However, Lexus will test how the board functions in Barcelona, Spain
this summer. “When technology, design, and imagination come together,
amazing things can be achieved,” Lexus tweeted.