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The Hoverboard from Back to the Future, Part II is the dream of many. The belief that it existed became so entrenched, it required a Snopes page(Opens in a new window) to debunk it. That’s because director Robert Zemeckis once claimed—on camera, for a TV special(Opens in a new window)!—that it was real, setting many young minds of the 1980s aflame.
Now, a quarter of a century later, the Hoverboard is real. Sure, the Hendo Hoverboard is just a Kickstarter for now(Opens in a new window), and you can only board over metal (no skating over water). But this is a movie tech we’ve all wanted. Once, experts thought cities would be re-built for the glory of the Segway—but it’s far more likely to happen for the hoverboard. Assuming enough of us order it.
Hoverboards aren’t the first great movie tech to reach the real world. Nike even released a version of Marty McFly’s self-lacing sneakers(Opens in a new window)—sadly, they still lack the self-lacing aspect, but that might be real by next year(Opens in a new window). Star Trek‘s PADD is practically low-end compared to our current tablets. Luke Skywalker’s replacement arm is so great, inventor (and Segway creator) Dean Kamen named his highly advanced, real-life robot prosthesis the Luke Arm (it just got FDA approval(Opens in a new window)). Elon Musk says he’s actually going to build a submarine car, just like James Bond’s. Robot fights are nothing new—it’s just a matter of time before they’re as rock-’em-sock-’em as Real Steel.
There are some movie technologies that we absolutely don’t need—like Minority Report-style gesturing, via the Leap Motion Controller. That just looks exhausting. And don’t get us started on your self-driving cars there, Johnny Cab(Opens in a new window).
But it begs the question: what are the movie technologies we absolutely wish were really real, more than anything? Check out our picks in the slideshow.
(Images are copyrighted by the individual studios that own the movies, natch.)
1. Holograms
2. Neuralyzer
3. Web-shooters
4. Face Masks
5. Electromagnetic Climbing Gloves
6. Instant Jacked-In Knowledge
7. Useful AND Sentient Robots
8. Medical Pods
9. Time Machine
10. Transporters
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