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you paid a visit to the Ark's PAC's hoverboard testing facility in Los Gatos California to check out their latest hoverboard the Hendo 2.0 the Hendo 2.0 is Hendo second-generation hoverboard and was designed with the help of Tony Hawk he wanted to mount a real skateboard deck on top the hoverboard floats on top of powerful hover engines which create a magnetic field under the board which is known as the magnetic field architecture the Hendo 2.0 is quieter than its predecessor the Hendo 1.0 has improved rider control and longer battery life the Hendo 2.0 is released on Back to the Future day October 21st 2015 the Hendo 1.0 is the original Hendo hoverboard from arcs packs and contains four first-generation hover engines designed by the company the Hendo 1.0 can hover up to 550 pounds it has been ridden by a famous sumo wrestler and legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin the Hendo 1.0 was introduced to the world on Kickstarter on October 21st 2014 now riding the hoverboards is difficult they are heavy and hard to control in the area we had to ride them in was very small so we were pretty limited in our movements the hoverboards also require a conductive surface in order to create a powerful magnetic field under the board to get it off the ground arcs PACs showed us their updated white box plus developers kids which helped to illustrate how the hoverboard technology may be controlled in the future these small boxes contain smaller hover engines and with the help of a radio controller you can tilt the engines to different angles which propel the white box plus forward in any given direction I imagine in the future a hoverboard rider would simply hold a small Nintendo Wii light controller in his or her hand and steer the hoverboard more easily you can read more about the Hendo hoverboard and the other cool things ARC's packs is working on like Elon Musk's Hyperloop demonstration in the CNET article