{"id":130262,"date":"2015-06-24T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=130262"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:11:03","slug":"lexus-is-making-a-real-hoverboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/130262-lexus-is-making-a-real-hoverboard.html","title":{"rendered":"Lexus is making a real hoverboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lexus recently revealed it has been developing a hoverboard, showing off its project in a YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>Part of its \u201cAmazing in Motion\u201d projects, Lexus said its SLIDE hoverboard uses a combination of liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductors and permanent magnets.<\/p>\n<p>The car maker also said the hoverboard features the Lexus spindle grille \u201csignature shape\u201d, and uses the kind of materials found in its cars &#8211; from the high tech, to bamboo on the top of the board.<\/p>\n<p>Lexus has been developing its hoverboard for the past 18 months, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/06\/23\/lexus-slide-hoverboard-magnets-teaser\/\">Gizmodo reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Much like other hoverboards in development, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/114335-hendo-hoverboards-levitating-skateboard-kickstarted.html\"><strong>Hendo Hoverboard<\/strong><\/a> which was Kickstarted in 2014, the Lexus SLIDE requires a metal surface to hover on.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/06\/23\/lexus-slide-hoverboard-magnets-teaser\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget reported<\/a><\/strong> that Lexus said\u00a0there is metal underneath the skate park shown in the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zTCgMPZRuo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on hoverboards<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/121118-hoverboards-and-super-fast-trains-why-we-need-superconductors.html\"><strong>Hoverboards and super-fast trains \u2013 why we need superconductors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/114335-hendo-hoverboards-levitating-skateboard-kickstarted.html\"><strong>Hendo Hoverboard levitating skateboard Kickstarted<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insert Back to the Future Part II reference here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":130266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,24949,31252,31250,31254],"class_list":["post-130262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-lexus","tag-lexus-hoverboard","tag-lexus-slide","tag-lexus-slide-hoverboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130268,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130262\/revisions\/130268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}