Levitation

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Ball Pit Turned Into Levitating Rainbow Column

10:00AM May 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

OK, internet – I’m not going to let you break my heart again. I know this is almost certainly fake – the product of a CGI firm. But even so, it’s beautiful and amazing, and you can’t rob me of that. More »


Cameras

This Tokyo Girl Levitates Daily

11:20AM March 8, 2011 | Sam Biddle

What do YOU do every day? Pick your nose? Argue with your girlfriend? Polish your iPad? I bet it’s not as cool as this young lady from Tokyo, who photographs herself in a new levitating pose every day. Float on, brave woman. [yowayowa via PetaPixel]


DIY Levitating Jedi Training Sphere

4:00AM November 15, 2010 | Jack Loftus

This levitating DIY project won’t give aspiring Jedi much of a challenge (it doesn’t really move), but it’s perfect for the Star Wars fan’s ever-growing display case. Plus, DIY! More »


Gadgets

Levitron Revolution Makes Your Junk Look Awesome In Space

11:00AM June 12, 2009 | Andi Wang

For those who have a treasured item you want to display in style, the Levitron Revolution uses some sort of electromagnets—or anti-gravity voodoo magic—that levitates and slowly rotates your prized possession in space. More »


Gadgets

Hoverit Lounger: Relaxation Through Levitation

10:52AM January 18, 2008 | Sean Fallon

The latest in relaxation technology comes to us from British company Hoverit in the form of a handmade acrylic lounger that can hover in mid air. As you might have guessed, the gravity defying aspects of the chair derive from repelling magnetic forces in both the bed and base. Hoverit also suggests that the magnetic forces can “help back, muscular problems and headaches” in addition to delivering a relaxing sensation akin to floating on air. More after the break.galleryPost('hoverit', 3, '');

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Crealev Floating Lamp Leavens Any Room

11:13PM October 31, 2007 | Wilson Rothman

In the future, everything will levitate. Take for example Angela Jansen’s floaty lamp, shown by the Netherlander firm Crealev at a show during Dutch Design Week. (Oh, you don’t attend?) It’s actually the shade that hovers using magnetic levitation over the light-up lamp base, but it’s enough to make you truly believe in magic. Or at least in all those other maglev products on the market, like the photo frame, computer mouse and $90,000 limited-edition sculpture. (And let’s not leave out the SkyMall star, the floating globe). After the jump, there’s a short video clip of the spinning Crealev lamp—and its kid sister, the levitating candy dish—shot by Moco Loco. More »


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Physicists Figure Out How To Cause Levitation; Hoverboards Imminent

5:45AM August 7, 2007 | Adam Frucci

If there was a cooler movie prop in my childhood than the hoverboard from Back to the Future, Part II, I don’t know what it was. That hoverboard made me really, really want to be living in the year 2015. And while as I got older my pragmatism and cynicism lead me to believe we would definitely not have hoverboards by that time, I might just be proven wrong in the most awesome way possible: by real hoverboards.

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