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Guinness World Records defines a hoverboard as an autonomously powered personal levitator. In May 2015, the Romanian-born Canadian inventor Cătălin Alexandru Duru set a Guinness World Record by travelling a distance of 275.9 m (302 yd) at heights up to 5 m (16 ft) over a lake, on an autonomously powered hoverboard of his own design. [34] [35]
The Hendo Hoverboard will be available next autumn, the couple announced on Kickstarter, and you can have one for a cool $10,000. Michael J. Fox rode a hoverboard in 1989, and now anyone can in ...
A self-balancing scooter (also hoverboard, self-balancing board, segway, [1] swegway or electric scooter board) is a self-balancing personal transporter consisting of two motorized wheels connected to a pair of articulated pads on which the rider places their feet. The rider controls the speed by leaning forward or backward, and direction of ...
Dean Lawrence Kamen (/ ˈ k eɪ m ɪ n /; born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman.He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, [2] as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers.
The famous hoverboard used in "Back to the Future II" is hitting the auction block. In the movie, Michael J. Fox, who played Marty McFly in the "Back to the Future" series, used the hoverboard in ...
Rex McCandless (1915–1992) was a former motorcycle racer, designer and constructor from Northern Ireland. [1]Born in Hillsborough, County Down, McCandless had been a successful motorcycle racer prior to the Second World War. [1]
The Malloy Hoverbike, an early hoverbike, undergoing tethered hover testing in 2010. A hoverbike (or hovercycle) is a vehicle that can hover, resembling a flying motorbike, having at least two propulsive portions—one in front of and one behind the driver.
A Texas woman is charged with murder after police say she fatally shot her husband, lit his truck on fire and fled the scene in a kayak. Bexar County, Texas officials found the body of Tomas ...