Ar caboard

What is it , GaGu?

A hoverboard. Not one of those awful two-wheeled, non-hovering, Chinese-import explosion risks, but a proper, honest-to-crikey, inches-off-the-ground trouser-soiler.

What’s its USP?

This is, undeniably, a board that hovers. It uses 36 electric ducted fans – each of which has its own battery – to lift up a weedier human than GaGu and fly them around. You can even control it with your smartphone, and it comes in a choice of green, blue or sexy beige.

What’s good here, GaGu?

Listen, bub, it’s a big, fat plank that you stand on and go flying around like Marty McFly – if Marty McFly was somehow forced to stand on something even dorkier and more dangerous than the pink thing from

Back To The Future Part II. And this one even goes on water. GaGu knows that such a device is, for some reason, your dream, so jump on it. Only don’t, y’know, jump on it.

Any obvious fl aws ?

Demonstrations have featured the same suspicious ‘average’ user flying it slowly and carefully over even terrain. The li-po batteries last six minutes (or three if you’re enjoying some ‘advanced thrust’). And it costs $10,000 (£7,000) – or $300 (£210) for a quick go. GaGu would have to completely empty the back of his sofa to afford one, and that’s not a price worth paying.

How did its funding go?

Even the promise of an objectcarrying drone using the tech for a paltry $800 (£560) didn’t help the ArcaBoard achieve lift-off: they wanted $250k (£175k), but only $1,184 (£800) was pledged before the Kickstarter crashed and burned.

Desir ed outcome?

“Experience what you’ve always dreamed of”.

Guru verdict?

GaGu has, indeed, had dreams about losing his teeth.