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Levitating Lounge Chair Created

February 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Filed in Technology

An inventor inspired by "Star Wars" is creating an item of household furniture that hovers off the ground to give a feeling of weightlessness.
It’s called the Lounger, and it’s an armchair that floats on magnets, thus allowing you to defy gravity. Thanks to the magnets, the seat and the base repel each other, so there [...]

Individual Maglev System - SkyTran - Personal Transportation of The Future

February 7th, 2008 | No Comments | Filed in Technology

A concept for a high speed and high capacity Personal Rapid Network was developed by an American company called UniModal Transport Solutions. Each vehicle has two seats and uses a Maglev system to travel. The guideways are spread in the city, on a one mile by one mile network. Every 400 meters or so, [...]