Tag: LEVITATION

In Japan, as in most of East Asia, the elderly have always enjoyed an "elevated" status in society. A new chair, however, makes that hierarchical tradition clearer -- and more literal -- than ever. Designed by researchers at Kobe University, a prototype chair unveiled at a recent Osaka robot fair uses a bed of air cushions and air-hockey-like jetstreams to hover above the ground and transport ...

If you're one of the suckers who, back in the '80s, believed that the hoverboards featured in 'Back to the Future 2' were real but were banned due to safety concerns, you may get the last laugh yet. Scientists have managed to reverse the so-called Casmir force, a gravity-like effect that pulls objects together with increasing strength the closer they become. By reversing this force, ...