Forget manned missions to Mars, New Mexico’s Arca Space Corporation boldly goes where no one has gone before, developing the first commercially available hoverboard in history—the ArcaBoard. Sure, it might look more like a Lego or miniature mattress than Marty McFly’s model, but aerodynamic aesthetics aside, it can float one foot above the ground and travel at a speed of 12.5 mph.

Designed by the same engineers that developed the Demonstrator 2B rocket in 2004, the world’s largest solar balloon in 2006,…