From a White House pool report:
POTUS toured the shops of Industrial Support Inc., a multi-purpose small manufacturing facility in Buffalo.
The highlight: a lot of presidential laughter when he exhorted New York Times reporter Sheryl Stolberg to sit down on a small hovercraft that briefly levitated off the surface of the freshly painted shop floor.
“Who wants to try this out?” a broadly smiling Obama said to the pool when shown the roughly 3-foot wide disc.
Spotting Stolberg, he urged her to try it, telling factory employees she was from the New York Times.
“You’re levitating,” he exclaimed with child-like enthusiasm as a slightly embarrassed Stolberg skidded a few feet across the floor.
Here is the press, hard at work: