27-10-2014 15:00

A company in California says that it created the world’s first real hoverboard. The hoverboard is like a skateboard, but it has no wheels and it hovers 1 inch off the ground. The company is testing its 18th prototype.

So how does it work? The hoverboard has four hover engines which create a special magnetic field. The field pushes against itself and levitates the board.

If you give $100 to the company, it will let you ride the hoverboard for 5 minutes. If you help the company by giving it $10,000, you can have a hoverboard. But you will have to wait until October 2015.

Difficult words: hover (remain in one place in the air), engine (machine which can make something move), levitate (make rise and hover in the air).

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