HOVERBOARD - NILS GUADAGNIN

The Hoverboard is a project made by Nils guadagnin, a young french artist. This work is born in 2008 for an exhibition named "Back To the future".
It 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, this artist 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.

more infos : www.nilsguadagnin.com - www.whiteoffice.org

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  Film & Animation

[IBlueGuyI]

stand on it

[SelfishThe1]

9gag bring me here



[sk8tinboy6]

can you actually ride it though...?

[infinitytimez2]

Then gtfo

[SkateboardingFrogs]

do a kickflip

[GLoWSc0pEz]

Back to the future

[Rig mc combo]

If we one day finds out how to make magnets easy and cheap then maybe they build magnets into the roads and then we can hover ! !!!!!! :D

[Anthony G]

It looks like it could be used as a hovering dinner plate.

[sliccslacc]

I've got a question. Maybe this is really stupid, but.. uhm .. :D

Well I know that +&+ or -&- poles repel each other.

So.. If we were to build a floor made out of very strong - or + poles and the hover board also with strong - poles :D could you ride on it? Would the repelling force be strong enough to cary someone?? :D

[Barack Obama]

Magnets, but cool artwork.

[Marcquez Parker]

I think I could build one of those, but it would take a lot of power to float actual people.

[Marcquez Parker]

Even if you were to have hoverboards, the only people to have them earlier would be rich and black market people