Stupid or Amazing: Hoverboards

Since they've reached critical mass, people have been putting them to use in strange and wonderful ways: choreographing dances on them. [...]as someone who grew up in Detroit, the auto capital of the world, where I was raised to shirk bicycling and walking for more automated modes of transport,...

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Published in:Popular mechanics (New York. 1959) 2016-05, Vol.193 (5), p.112
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