Hoverboards that don’t actually hover… could they have had a better name? #VersionHistory
 The Verge·2025-10-05 15:01
Why the hell are these things called hoverboards. They don't hover. Yeah, fair point taken.But they are hoverboards and they they they just are hoverboards. There was never any other good name to call them. You know, I I where that comes from, I don't even really remember.Again, this there was this sort of cultural thing happening, like I said, at the same time where hoverboards were in our mind in a way that they hadn't been in years prior. And so, you know, I think it just it became a good shortorthhand f ...
