Everyone has heard  those so-called hoverboards, you know the segways with wheels that in fact do not hover? Well forget them. Omni Hoverboards and Arx Pax have both created real hoverboards that can actually fly.

Arx Pax gets their Hendo Hoverboard flying with magnetic levitation technology, called Magnetic Field Architecture.

Philippe Maalouf, CEO of Omni Hoverboards, is leading a small team to put the hoverboard plan into motion. The idea of Omni is little helicopter boards pushing the board into flight.

“They’re not going to be good,” Ivy Grossburg ‘18 said. “All we’ll do is ride hoverboards which will keep us from like walking and exercising, America is going to be lazy.”

Maalouf explains that the hoverboards will be used for policing, military and urban transportation and not just recreation.

Omni’s early version has already been proven to work when it created the Guinness World Record for flight of a hoverboard, flying a distance of 905 feet. Maalouf had the opportunity of trying out the machine. He explains when you ride any other flying vehicle, “you feel like you’re riding on the back of a dragon” which sounds pretty amazing but on the Omni, “you feel like it’s you who’s flying. And that’s new.”

“I really want one,” Michael Esquivel ‘16 said. “I would beg my mom for one when they come out.”