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You said on the Indiegogo site that this project is really about funding the beginning of a world with hoverboards. What do you foresee a world of hoverboards being like?I think a world with hoverboards would be awesome, and honestly, I don't think we're that far off. Military jets can hover and take off or land vertically. Helicopters can hover and now we even have a motorcycle that can hover. It's only a matter of time before the technology is available so we can put it into a smaller hoverboard. You also mentioned that you weren’t the first to try something like this, as a few companies have been developing similar technology using the motorcycle platform. What have you taken away from these other developments?To be honest, I didn't learn as much from watching the hover-bike project as I did from looking at the defense industry. In the defense industry, contractors have been challenging themselves to come up with ways to produce new types of propulsion engines and power sources that can take us into the 21st century. If you look at some of the new technology that NASA or Lockheed Martin produces, it's truly mind-blowing and it all started with a scientist or engineer that believed he could do it.What have you learned not to do?[To not] listen to the haters or naysayers. These are the same people that complain that their cell phone doesn't have a built in toaster-oven, yet they choose to forget how amazing it is that they're holding a device with more computing power than the space shuttle that landed two astronauts on the moon. We've gone from wired phones to wireless devices with cameras and apps that can do just about anything in less than 25 years. But of course, they take it for granted and it's not good enough. You said the hoverboards will be customized for fun or tailored to meet the needs of any industry. Who, in terms of industry, location or age demographic, do you think will benefit from the hoverboard creation the most?Even then people said it wasn't possible and we proved them wrong.
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Do you think if Marty McFly travelled to real life 2015, he'd be disappointed by how things have progressed? I mean, we DO have the super spunky iPhone and the Internet of Things, but no flying cars.I don't think Marty would be disappointed. After all, he did come from the 80's and just look back at what was considered "cool" during that time. The big hair, clashing colors and computer technology was pretty bad. I don't think anyone is proud of those days! I think Marty would be somewhat impressed with our technology, obviously everyone isn't driving a flying car yet, but hopefully we'll have a hoverboard for him to hop on by then. What do you think Michael J. Fox would think of your project?I would love to hear what Michael J. Fox thinks about our project! I hope he's impressed with the fact that we're even trying something like this. If it wasn't for him and Back to the Future, we wouldn't be doing this. So I hope it makes him proud because he's just as much a part of this as we are. I would be honored to give him the first real working hoverboardHistory has told us that some of the best and brightest people in the world had to defy the rules to give us the technology that we take for granted today.