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August 8, 2007
Hoverboards So Real
Remember the hover skateboard from Back to the Future Part II? Well that lil' gem may be a reality someday. There's research regarding maglev technology that could potentially harness something called the casimir force - strong enough to repel even heavy objects and suspend them in mid-air.
Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force [wiki], so that it repels instead of attracts.
Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts that levitate But they say that, in principle at least, the same effect could be used to levitate bigger objects too, even a person.
via Neatorama
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Comments
I wanna a hoverboard !
Posted by: Fubiz at August 8, 2007 7:03 AM
Me too!
Posted by: [Z] at August 8, 2007 1:49 PM
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Posted by: joop at October 1, 2007 5:02 AM