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HUVr tech biggest hoax or not?

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In February, 2014 at Los Angeles a company known as HUVr released a video purporting to be a “completely real” demonstration of celebrities -- including Tony Hawk, Moby, Terrelle Owens, Schoolboy Q, and Agnes Bruckner -- riding HUVr Boards around downtown Los Angeles. Well, HUVr has an authentic-seeming website set up, and says the project began in the summer of 2010 at the MIT Physics Graduate Program. “Our team consists of materials science, electricity [and] magnetism experts who’ve solved an important part of one of science’s mysteries: the key to antigravity,” HUVr’s website says. “The HUVr board team ultimately aims to improve the efficiency, speed and sustainability of mass transportation.” Given that the board have four different types and style to which they believe aids in balance. HUVr claims that its boards are “super solid” and have footpads that allow the boards to “turn on a dime.” Also introducing the HUVr app that connects via Bluetooth to track rout...