This hoverboard looks like the real deal – unlike the recent fake hoverboard.  Although I’m not exactly sure how the Hendo Hoverboard works, I have a pretty good guess. Let’s look at electromagnetic repulsion physics that it might use.

If you read the description on the kickstarter page, it says:

“The magic behind the hoverboard lies in its four disc-shaped hover engines. These create a special magnetic field which literally pushes against itself, generating the lift which levitates our board off the ground.”

That “pushes against itself” makes me worried. You can’t make yourself fly by pulling up on your belt, can you?  No, you can’t. But there is a way that this could work.

Read more here The Physics of the Hendo Hoverboard