{"id":8736,"date":"2014-09-04T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8736"},"modified":"2014-09-04T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:18:56","slug":"sci-tech-levitation-for-fun-and-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8736","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Levitation for fun and profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a survey of various\u00a0cool techniques for levitating objects and the efforts to commercialize them :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/29\/tech\/innovation\/can-levitating-appliances-take-off\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">Can levitating appliances take off? &#8211; CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* One project is the Malloy hoverbike that I <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8694\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned here<\/a> the other day:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/business\/2014\/08\/29\/spc-make-create-innovate-hoverbike.cnn\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* Magnetic magic from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crealev.com\/\" target=\"_d\">CREALEV<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gMMM62NC-4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNUMOKpEybY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m7Pyy0NUO6E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* A levitating speaker from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omone.com\/om-one\" target=\"_d\">Om Audio<\/a>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XCfhdmC7oMY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Levitating arrays of small items with acoustic waves:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NLgD3EtxwdY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a survey of various\u00a0cool techniques for levitating objects and the efforts to commercialize them :\u00a0Can levitating appliances take off? &#8211; CNN.com * One project is the Malloy hoverbike that I mentioned here the other day: * Magnetic magic from\u00a0CREALEV: * A levitating speaker from\u00a0Om Audio\u00a0: * Levitating arrays of small items with acoustic waves: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Levitation for fun and profits<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2gU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1210,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1210","url_meta":{"origin":8736,"position":0},"title":"Powered by Dreaming &#8211; bridging the worlds of science and art","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I received the following announcement in the mail about an interesting event called: Powered by Dreaming,\u00a0taking place May 28th - May 31st, 2013 at Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY.\u00a0This three-day experience\u00a0is full of workshops in astronomy,\u00a0botany, biology, music and much more; all\u00a0guided by experts\u00a0within their fields. 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