The auto brand released pictures of the hoverboard floating above the ground, but no pictures of it in motion or with anyone standing on it. Durand says, however, it can support weight.

Lexus is yet to show the board being used, sticking merely to videos of it levitating in position with enthusiastic voiceovers by pro skateboarder Ross McGouran ("it's like floating on air").

Move over, McFly: Floating hoverboard now a reality. Martha Mendoza. AP National Writer. The more your knees quiver, the more the 90 pound board you're perched on, ...

Whoa, that’s heavy, doc. A California couple is trying to make the hoverboard, a floating skateboard made popular in the “Back to the Future” films, a reality. Science might not necessarily ...

The Lexus Hoverboard uses magnetic levitation to achieve amazing frictionless movement. Liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors and permanent magnets combine to allow Lexus to create the impossible.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but a company has created a working, honest-to-god-it’s-real hoverboard. It’s called “Slide,” and it’s made by Lexus.

Lexus says it has invented a hoverboard -- this we already knew.What we haven't seen is anyone actually riding it. That's about to change -- although not yet. Lexus has revealed a new teaser for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With a high-pitched screech, a hoverboard lifts a rider one inch off the ground, floating on a cushion of air across a copper-plated stage. The scene wasn’t as swashbuckling ...

But the tech behind the Hendo Hoverboard is different from current applications of maglev, for various reasons. The most obvious difference is that, unlike a train, the board doesn't follow a track.