It doesn’t take an extensive, Socratic debate to get the bottom of this quandary: If it has two wheels and doesn’t actually hover, is it a hoverboard? The answer is no — it’s simply a self-balancing electric scooter, one that’s nowhere near as cool as the device Marty McFly first tantalized us with nearly two decades ago. After all of the brouhaha and build up of the Great Hovebroard Sham of 2015 (as history will surely remember it), humanity was left with a bevy of ACL injuries, fires, tragic Vine compilations, and little else. As a species, we’ve sent probes into space and detected the Higgs boson, yet the personal hoverboard has somehow eluded us… until now.
Below are five hoverboards that, well, actually hover above the ground. Just don’t expect to get your hands on any of them in the near future — crowdfunding a $10,000 venture on Kickstarter isn’t exactly easy, after all.
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