Hover Board
A Sub-Trope of Cool Board, the main recreational device in the future is the Hover Board. Like an all-terrain skateboard, the hoverboard is totally awesome and likely gained popularity with the movie Back to the Future Part II. Many Speculative Fiction series set 20 minutes or further into the future will have these things fly through the streets. Or even through the air, when it really shouldn't because that's when it stops being hovering and starts being Sky Surfing.
The characteristic that differentiates a hoverboard and Sky Surfing is the altitude range each has. A hoverboard generally has to stay within a certain distance of the grou...read more