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Although director Robert Zemeckis once jokingly said during an interview that hoverboards were real, the principles for a working hoverboard are currently beyond our knowledge.
Rumors were circulating around the Internet in 2001 that inventor Dean Kamen's new invention (codenamed "It") was to be a form of transportation resembling a hoverboard. It turned out instead to be a gyroscopic 2-wheeled, electric-powered stand-up scooter called the Segway Human Transporter.