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Hoverboards In The Movie 'Back To The Future'
By: Madison Showalter
The hoverboards were first seen in the movie “Back to the Future.” That was over twenty years ago and they have been a major want ever since. The person who patented the idea of the original idea of hoverboards was Shane Chen. Several devices appeared in China in 2014. By 2015 they became popular in the United States. Newer boards have come out with Bluetooth speakers, allowing the driver to play music.
Some people today are calling “hoverboards” self-balancing scooters, because they don’t take you up into the air. Almost ninety-percent of hoverboards imported in Britain (since the middle of OCtober) have been seized because they could possibly explode. Safety officials have confiscated fifteen thousand of the scooters.

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