6/24/2023 0 Comments Tony hawk hoverboard![]() ![]() The clip has been attributed to Funny or Die, and looking at the video now, of course it's a fake. The video went viral, but keen-eyed viewers picked out incomplete special effects. A company named HUVr released the four and a half minute clip starring various celebrities (Moby, Terrell Owens, Bethany Cosentino, Schoolboy Q, and Tony Hawk) riding around on a "hoverboard" in a parking lot. Then the internet's heart collectively broke in March 2014 when a hoverboard hoax video circulated. However, they were unstable, couldn't reliably support much mass, and were impossible to steer and ride. But these hoverboards were only hoverboards in the sense that they A. Several inventors and tinkerers, including the almighty Mythbusters (in an episode from 2004), have "successfully" created hoverboards out of leaf blowers. Hopes were dashed in 2001 when it turned out his project was actually the Segway. When inventor Dean Kamen first announced he was working on a self-stabilizing, eco-friendly mode of transportation a lot of people thought he was developing a hoverboard. ![]() The road to the hoverboard has, so far, been fraught with instability and failed first tries. ![]()
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