If you have 10,000 dollars lying around...

And much more than that, I recently learned about this development of hover boards in a Time Magazine article talking about the 25 best inventions of 2014, and figured I should share it with the physics blogging world.

So just who is developing such an amazing product! None other then Hendo Hover a company devoted to using electromagnetism to create hover technology. This certain kind of technology they have specifically trademarked, that is "Magnetic Field Architecture" (MFA), and while they want to use this technology for some really awesomely cool hover boards, they are also very interested in using the technology for all around our society.

How can you use levitation all over society you ask? Well Hendo has the answer, they are planning on applying their MFA tech to buildings so when earthquakes strike the buildings are safe and also so valuable objects can be kept safe through hovering.

But starting with hovering a building is like a pre-med student starting the first day doing a brain surgery, so they took a smaller, easier task first, that is a hover board. Their hope is if they can popularize and show the technology in this small manner that they will then be able to take on bigger and bigger challenges like buildings.

The hover board is no small task though in itself, currently the board can only float over very conducting materials and only does so by an inch or so. The other problem is its battery life currently is only at about 15 minutes. So for now it seems I'm still stuck walking to school, but how cool is it that this technology is not so far off!

If you are interested you can check out more at hendohover.com !

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