WARNING: If you still believe the story perpetuated by Robert Zemeckis back in 1989 – to whit the hoverboards used in Back to the Future: Part II were real and only government concerns were preventing them being released onto the mass market – it’s probably best you stop reading now and don’t click on the link below.

For everyone else, watch testers zooming around California on the essential kids’ plaything of 2015. Even with wires and crane-shadows in view, it still looks pretty damn impressive.