We all remember Back to the Future Part II and all the futuristic items included in the film. A new company by the name of HUVr claiming to to have recreated a Hoverboard like Marty McFly used in the film.
You can catch ScHoolboy Q, Tony Hawk, Terrell Owens and Christopher Lloyd, who starred as the Back to the Future's "Doc" featured in HUVr's new advertisement.
Sad part, this is most likely a hoax for something semi-related.
According The Verge:
They're calling themselves HUVr Corp and claim to have a staff filled with "materials science, electricity & magnetism experts who've solved an important part of one of science's mysteries: the key to antigravity."
In the face of mounting evidence that the hoverboard is fake (you can see what appears to be a wire harness in this screencap), HUVr has published a FAQ on Facebook which insists that the gadget is totally, completely real. The company claims the board will be affordable and that it hopes to ship the product in December 2014, and will demonstrate just how real the technology is in a series of live events in major US cities.
In the meanwhile, however, Andy Baio has discovered that one of the team leaders, a supposed MIT researcher, is none other than actor Nelson Cheng, who apparently studied economics at Princeton instead. And we traced back the Twitter stream to discover that at least part of the HUVr campaign is a production of San Francisco-based Spring Studio — it appears that HUVr originally tweeted a link to its client page there instead of to the actual site, and was unable to completely cover up the mishap.
