Adding a gearbox is one option, but there is another: so-called “hoverboard” motors are common and offer a frankly outstanding torque-to-price ratio. A teardown showed that the necessary ...

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CCTV footage captured what looked like drones with red and green lights on the wings. Some witnesses said they appeared to be as big as cars, while others have gone so far as to speculate that ...

But somehow, someway, the name has since been co-opted to include wheeled devices like the one above. In any event, if you’re curious as to what a real hoverboard experience might look like ...