The word "hoverboard" is sometimes accustomed to describe these products. However, as originally observed in the films To the Future Component II and To the Future Component III, a "hoverboard" referred to a wheel-less skateboard-like gadget which "hovered" a number of centimeters/inches above the floor. The self-balancing two-wheeled board doesn't have this capacity. An editor from the Oxford English Book (OED) commented about the September 2015 addition of "hoverboard online" within the OED: But just what real hoverboard? The prototypes revealed by Lexus as well as ArxPax recently clearly satisfy the most crucial criteria for To the Future enthusiasts: they hover. 

Both depend on the repelling energy of intense permanent magnetic fields—generated by superconducting magnets cooled down by liquid nitrogen—acting on the special magnetized monitor. So neither holds out the chance that we’ll all end up being zooming around cities and cities in it anytime soon. However, the boards ridden through rapper Wiz Khalifa at La airport recently (ridden, that's, until police wrestled him towards the ground), and with a pilgrim performing the actual tawaf in Mecca tend to be hoverboards in title only: the word happens to be registered as a trademark in america and the UNITED KINGDOM by manufacturers of the miniature, Segway-style, two-wheeled vehicle that stays firmly on the floor. Whether these devices remove (while not actually removing) remains to become seen; certainly, they haven’t already been round long sufficient to be contained in the new OED admittance, which restricts by itself to boards which Marty McFly might recognize. sfifars9