Back To The Future Part II made all sorts of promises it doesn't look like it's going to keep. What looked like the far-flung future of 2015 to filmmakers in 1989 is fast become the far more banal present for us in the modern day, and many of the predictions about the coming year from the middle instalment of Robert Zemeckis's time travel trilogy look like they're fairly wide off the mark. Hopefully the double tie thing isn't going to take off although really, who can predict the fashion trends we'll have forced upon us in the coming months and Jaws is a fair ways off of its nineteenth part, although the return of 3-D films is pretty on the money. The one big invention everyone was looking forward to, though? Hoverboards. And that looked like it was going to be just an avenue of disappointment (although some fans have a theory about that). That was until the Hendo arrived, a crowdfunded, real-life hoverboard. Like, that actually works. That is, if you're willing to shell out $10,000 for a prototype that's fairly limited. Maybe time to look to the past and steal a Sports Almanac...
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