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SEED Concept: Your Personal Automonous Floating Camera Drone

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The SEED is an autonomous, mobile camera balloon created to take photos and video of you while you’re on vacation, but I honestly see a lot of Big Brother implications. It also reminds me of the Kinos in Stargate Universe…. This unique spin on the blimp drone was designed

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July 10th, 2011 by: Range

The Meissner Effect Illustrated (By a Cute Little Guy)

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The Meissner effect is defined as “the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state.” …When put to the test in scientific experiments, it usually manifests itself as magnet hovering above a liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductor. But that’s kind of boring, so some guys

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April 17th, 2011 by: Technabob

Back to the Future Hoverboard is Finally Real, and No, You Can’T Ride It

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Apparently the hoverboard that I’ve always wanted has finally become reality. It was made by Nils Guadagnin for a Back to the Future exhibition.

As is obvious from the pics, this is a copy of the one Marty McFly rode in Back to the Future Part II…. While it

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May 28th, 2010 by: Range

Levitating Chair Could Make the Hoverboard a Reality

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I don’t know about you guys, but when I first saw that the Japanese had invented a sort of hovering chair for the elderly, I thought about one thing, and one thing alone: hoverboards will someday become a reality.

In Back to the Future II…, there were these great

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February 23rd, 2010 by: Range

Levitron Revolution World Stage, Magnet Toys Are Awesome!!

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Okay, honestly this is the best item for sale on ThinkGeek to date. The Levitron Revolution World Stage comes with a globe that hovers with the power of MAGNETS! Aren’t magnets cool? If you get tired of the floating globe you can open up the globe, remove the magnet disc…

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December 8th, 2009 by: P. Blandino

Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker Goes for a Swim

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With the warm weather season finally upon us (sorry Australian and New Zealand readers), you’re probably hoping to spend lots of time in the pool this Summer. But just because you’re floating around on an inflatable raft with a piƱa colada in hand doesn’t mean you have to be separated…

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May 29th, 2009 by: Technabob

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