Sorry to burst your high-flying dreams, but Funny or Die is behind HUVr, the mysterious tech company claiming to have invented the first hoverboard.
The truth behind this massive viral campaign came out after a costume designer who worked on the shoot posted the experience on her online resume, which has now been removed.
The clip from HUVr's YouTube channel appeared online on Tuesday. The clip claims to show off a real-life version of Back To The Future II's fictional hoverboard. The video features a slew of high-flying celebrity endorsers, including Christopher Lloyd, Tony Hawk and Moby.
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HUVr also released a video featuring actor Billy Zane explaining the technology behind the fake hoverboard. The company's website claims its team consists of "materials science, electricity & magnetism experts who've solved an important part of one of science's mysteries: the key to antigravity."
Alas, despite the impressive viral campaign, the only place you'll find hoverboards for now is on screen or in your dreams.
Let's get this one out of the way. Friends have recommended it to you a million times, and with good reason. The Oscar-winning flick about the founding of Facebook is a necessary watch for anyone who loves social media. Razor-sharp dialogue and performances from Jesse Eisenberg give a potentially silly movie a real contender's edge.
The film also boasts a techie fun fact: The Winklevoss twins were played by one actor, Armie Hammer -- the rest was taken care of by digital grafting and the use of body double Josh Pence.
To casual filmgoers, Francis Ford Coppola is The Godfather. For shame, because The Conversation is one of Coppola's best films (but was overshadowed by its release the same year as The Godfather 2). Nonetheless, the film about a surveillance expert who spies on a couple that might get murdered was nominated for three major Oscars and is a serious must-see.
Here's an ultimate fantasy for all tech geeks and comic-lovers. Tony Stark is a superhero bad boy with a billion dollars to his name, who becomes part machine after a terrible accident.
This 2009 documentary follows futurist Ray Kurzweil as he makes predictions about the future of technology.
A homemade movie with a heart, Catfish was a surprising documentary long before it was a reality show synonymous with fake online relationships. Filmmakers Ariel and Nev Schulman (brothers) and Henry Joost document Nev's budding relationship with a girl he's never met in person, who turns out to be...well, we won't spoil it for you.
...Or Das Leben der Anderen, for snobby Europhiles who refer to it by its German title. The Academy Award-winning foreign film tells the story of a conflicted surveillance man, spying on a famous writer and his actress girlfriend. The film is set in 1984, East Berlin, and features typewriters galore.
This made-for-TV cult hit amplifies and dramatizes the rivalry and cameraderie between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as they built their respective tech empires.
What if your whole life was a lie? No, literally your entire life was a lie, then recorded and broadcast to millions of viewers nationwide? That's the setup of The Truman Show, the satirical Jim Carrey vehicle that takes reality shows one step too far.
Say what you will about James Cameron, but the director has earned his keep around Hollywood. He favors larger-than-life tales, this one about a team of American scientists who travel to Pandora, a moon inhabited by blue aliens called Na'vi. From a technological standpoint, Cameron's use of CGI and motion-capture is groundbreaking and startlingly realistic. Now, whether or not Avatar's plot ripped too much from Pocahontas and FernGully is another story.
Maybe you saw this one coming from a mile away, but it's admittedly a wonderful little film set in the not-so-distant future. Joaquin Phoenix plays a man who falls in love with his operating system, voiced by a velvety Scarlett Johansson. It lightly parodies a world ruled by technology, while remaining romantic at its core.
A sci-fi film noir about the dangers of tampering with eugenics has never been so thrilling. Ethan Hawke stars as a man born without the help of genetic tampering, who is discriminated against by his scientifically superior peers.
Written and directed by 1980s high school connoisseur John Hughes, Weird Science is every tech-lover's dream. Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Anthony Michael Hall star as two nerds who create a perfect woman (whom they name Lisa, after the Apple Lisa computer). The plot is preposterous, but so '80s-tastic you'd be hard-pressed not to enjoy it.
Apple diehards should check out this documentary about the creation of the Mac computer and its subsequent hardcore following. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, says it was "so on the mark" and one of best films he'd seen about the company.
Disney/Pixar's story about a robot left behind on a ravaged Earth is heartwarming and technologically impressive, boasting the kind of animation that makes Pixar so revered in the film world.
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