80's Icon: BTTF2 Hover Board

After a weekend of watching the Back To The Future trilogy, it served to remind me of the impending 'future' of 2015. In a world where flying cars and self tying Nike's were all the rage, the accessory we're all really waiting for is Marty McFly's uber cool Hover Board.



How convenient then that I should come across Nils Guadagnin, a very talented French artist who has gone and actually created the iconic device of board sport future. Here's some info on the project...

“The Hoverboard is a project born in 2008 for an exhibition named “Back To the future”. This work is a copy of the hoverboard from the movie Back to the Future II. Integrated into the board and the plinth is an electromagnetic system which levitates the board. A laser system stabilises the object in the air. In the making of this work, I was thinking about different ways of presenting sculpture. In fact it’s a reflexion on the multiple possibilities of how to give a sculpture full spatial autonomy”


Although I have my doubts on whether this could hold the weight of a human, let alone save a a damson in distress a la Doc style (BTTF3), I still think it's probably the coolest piece of Back to the Future gadgetry I've seen so far.