Major retailers say no to hoverboard sales for this holiday season

to save Marty's children. What they find is a utopia of cool gadgetry (self-tying sneakers and hoverboards) and unlikely occurrences — sorry, Cubs fans, this doesn't appear to be the year your team will win the World Series.

Cops in north-eastern Australia had fun with Back to the Future Day this week by deploying its "Hoverboard Unit" to a supposed accident scene involving "a silver sedan" that'd apparently been doing 88 mph when it crashed.

The DeLorean might still be some way off, but in the present hoverboard technology is cruising along nicely — and its flagship model just got an upgrade. Hendo 2.0, the updated version of the hoverboard that caught everyone's attention exactly one

Here we cover the different times of hoverboard available to buy, but if you're looking for an actual hoverboard to buy right now you should see our round-up of the best hoverboards available in the UK right now. For more techie gifts and gadgets also

Superconductors also exhibit another bizarre property, thanks to the weird and wonderful laws of quantum mechanics: They expel external magnetic fields. This standoff between magnets and superconductors is what allows the modern hoverboard to levitate.