Guy Flies Hoverboard Across A Canadian Lake Setting A Guinness Record, Will The Futuristic Contraption Be Commercially Available?


A Canadian self-proclaimed inventor has successfully traversed almost 1,000 feet across a Canadian lake on a hoverboard, proving that this surreal technology is feasible in real life.

Tony Hawk may have fooled us with his hoverboard prank, but Catalin Alexandru Duru has proven that powerful hoverboards are a reality. In fact, his stunt isn’t a prank, but according to Guinness World Records, the Canadian inventor broke the world record for longest hoverboard flight with a flight of 275.9 meters (905 feet and 2 inches) and he did it not in some laboratory setting, but on an open lake.

Interestingly, Guinness World Records posted a video of the flight to the organization’s YouTube page on Friday last week, but confirms the hoverboard flight was achieved on August 25, 2014. The clip features Catalin straddled atop a quadcopterlike hoverboard flying about 16 feet off the ground, with no harness or power chord.

Thereafter, the inventor can be seen traveling across the water on Quebec’s Lake Ouareau to prove there’s no camera trickery or hidden assistance that is helping keep the hoverboard suspended in mid-air. Last year, pro-skater Tony Hawk was seen riding a futuristic hoverboard. Claimed to be developed in assistance with “professional skateboard maker” HUVrTech, Tony did some amazing tricks with a hoverboard that appeared very similar to the one which was featured in the Back To The Future series.

But the pro-skater later had to apologize for leading people on to believe that the hoverboard technology has indeed been developed. Interestingly, it was later in the year, the hoverboard technology did materialize. Conceptualized, designed, developed, and built by Catalin all by himself, he says it took him just under a year to build the surreal device.

The inventor claims it can be used “anywhere” and can fly at “scary heights.” It is second aspect that mandated the flight over a lake, confirmed the inventor. This is kind of ironic, considering that the movie joked that it can’t. As against patents for inventions, which are exhaustively detailed, there aren’t much details shared by Catalin about his hoverboard, except for his feat that was done for the sole purpose of setting a Guinness record.

Looking at the clip, it appears the inventor steers the hoverboard by shifting his body-weight back and forth, which is eerily similar to the Green Goblin, one of Spiderman’s many enemies. Unfortunately, the inventor hasn’t confirmed when or if his hoverboard will be commercially produced.

[Image Credit | YouTube Screen Grab]

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