This working hoverboard has set a world record

The promises of a particular 80s movie may not be a reality just yet — and time is running out, but the day when we can use a hoverboard as a viable mode of transportation, just like Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II, is slowly edging closer to reality. That reality was inched forward thanks to the efforts of Canadian software engineer Catalin Alexandry Duru. Duru broke the Guinness World Record for farthest flight by hoverboard, setting the new distance at 275 meters — some five times greater than the previous record. Filmed at Lake Ouareau, Quebec in…

This story continues at The Next Web

from The Next Web http://ift.tt/1AtYZWj
via IFTTT