Unlike active magnetic levitation, Inductrack doesn't need electromagnets or any power to achieve the levitation effect.
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The "screwdriver," along with what they're calling a Gauntlet of Levitation, were created as a way to help humans control acoustic levitation in order to interact with dangerous materials.
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Hyperloop One competitor Hyperloop Transportation Technologies rejected Musk's original suggestion for the levitation bit—air bearings, which work like an air hockey table, in reverse—in favor of passive magnetic levitation.
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Billionaire backing and the employment of passive magnetic levitation, which uses unpowered loops of wire on the track and permanent magnets in the pods to create levitation, helps address these issues.
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Passive magnetic levitation, which was developed by the late physicist Richard Post in 2000, uses unpowered loops of wire in the track and permanent magnets in the train pod to create levitation.
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Who did the artwork for your new album Acoustic Levitation?
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Louis route using magnetic levitation to support vehicles in tube.
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Here's where the less known kind of magnetic levitation works in.
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The first is that the levitation system doesn't take any power.
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Same magnetic levitation, same mesmerizing spin, just a wooden exterior instead.
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Friction-killing levitation is a core part of the Hyperloop vision.
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His iconic red cloak, the Cloak of Levitation, debuted in '64.
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Where was the Back to the Future levitation we'd been promised?
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And yet my afternoon ended with a bruising fall from that levitation.
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So, vacuum, propulsion system, control system, levitation, into basically an integrated hyperloop.
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Related: Stunning Photos of a Bonsai Traveling the World This Artist is Trapping Flowers in Blocks of Ice The Art Of Levitation: 6 Photographers Who Feature Gravity-Defying Subjects Magnetic Levitation Device Makes Any Object Float Like Magic
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The technology works via passenger pod, a near-vacuum tube, and magnetic levitation.
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Acoustic levitation is what it sounds like: using sound waves to levitate objects.
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We're doing a handful of dates this spring including Levitation festival in Texas.
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Contrary to disgruntled Facebook commenters' claims that Levitation had screwed them over, it was clear that the staff, musicians, and local music venues did everything in their power to deliver at least a fraction of the the full Levitation experience.
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In a sense, passive magnetic levitation has been a solution waiting for a problem.
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And now that she has, she appears to be exploring some uncharted territory. Levitation?
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HTT's "Hyperloop Levitation System" will do away with the need for this older infrastructure.
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It turns out, magnetic levitation of normal objects is actually just a big hassle.
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Magnets in the base operate with a rotating mechanism, making unending magnetic levitation possible.
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For the moment, the VicHyper team is even using wheels instead of a levitation system.
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There's levitation, a whip-toting lizard creature, and (best guess) the cooking show from hell.
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We teamed with Levitation Festival again this year, we'll be at the Hotel Vegas compound.
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The classic woman levitation trick, for instance, is accomplished via forklift behind a stage curtain.
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It is a new train technology that combines magnetic levitation (maglev) with reduced-pressure tubes.
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It uses magnetic levitation and a vacuum-sealed tube to all but eliminate air resistance.
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Using the artist's body as a site of memory, Allison reimagines levitation through self portraits.
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It works by propelling pods using magnetic levitation through a low-pressure, near-vacuum tube.
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Hyperloop is a form of transportation that uses magnetic levitation to float vehicles above a track.
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The colors, the feeling of levitation, the parallel lines... this is some beautiful and sophisticated stuff.
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As for the levitation technology, test versions of the Inductrack technology were built a decade ago.
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It's framed as an opportunity to learn the 8 Ways Magnetic Levitation Could Shape the Future.
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Some teams presented full pod designs; others presented just subsystems for propulsion, air levitation, or braking.
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Apart from the Cloak of Levitation, Strange's other iconic mystical artifact is the Eye of Agamotto.
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BMW has created the world's blackest car in partnership with Surrey Nano Systems and Levitation 29.
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As the person gets close to the ground, magnetic levitation would hopefully buoy them back up.
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Flickering in and out of consciousness, I had visions of alien abductions, Twin Peaks, and human levitation.
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That might be why when Elon Musk first proposed the system, he suggested levitation via air bearings.
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The motorized table settings, levitation platform, and magical forest feel like they're begging to be shared online.
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A couple of years ago, the unit set the speed record for magnetic levitation at 510 mph.
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Although crammed into the space, the angled canvas is unimposing — buoyant almost, seeming somehow capable of levitation.
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Would the magnetic levitation subway in Wakanda travel around its capital city like a graceful roller coaster?
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As the name hints at, the Levitron is a levitating top that harnesses spin-stabilized magnetic levitation.
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Some experts wonder whether a Dubai hyperloop would simply become a showpiece similar to Shanghai's magnetic-levitation train.
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Tell Remus "Wingardium Leviosa" — the charm for levitation — and the pup will promptly stand on his hind legs.
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The 15 Climaveneta water-cooled chillers equipped with magnetic levitation lower the facilities power consumption by 45 percent.
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Still, he is pleased to have been chosen as a witness to the levitation of this annoying woman.
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The levitation room In one of Quentin's first scenes at Brakebills University, he gets yelled at pretty badly.
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Tesla's premarket levitation on Tuesday also indicated there was heavy interest in the stock from natural buyers, Cramer explained.
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The technology uses magnetic levitation to propel the people-and-product laden pods through the tube with little friction.
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This levitation of the market based on vague ideas of tax cuts, less regulation, and fiscal stimulus seem overdone.
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On Monday, HTT made its own announcement that it had licensed a different propulsion technology using passive magnetic levitation.
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Researchers in the UK have created gloves that rely on acoustic levitation to make particles float in mid-air.
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The Arrivo system will propel vehicles and cargo through an electro-magnetic superhighway using magnetic levitation and electric power.
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As Levitation attracts around 10,000 attendees, it was clear from the start that many ticketholders would be left out.
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Using magnetic levitation and propelled by electrical charges, the test sled coasted through the Hyperloop tube for 5.3 seconds.
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Wandering around low-rise Tianzifang is an antidote to the soaring Shanghai of magnetic levitation trains and mega-skyscrapers.
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They're also prime movers in the modern psych scene, for which Levitation Festival has provided a global focal point.
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The album cover represents levitation: being separated from all your worries and cares and being uplifted for a little while.
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Hyperloop One actually has a number of technologies it has to perfect: levitation, a low-pressure tube environment and propulsion.
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As the pod accelerated through the tube 11 feet in diameter, the 16 wheels retracted as magnetic levitation took over.
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It just signed a deal to use a little-known, "passive magnetic levitation" system to float its trains in tubes.
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It might seem like the levitation is just an added design element, but it actually serves a very important function.
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"Furniture turning over, cups filled with water, fires igniting, voices, levitation," Janet recalled of the time while speaking to iTV.
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A carefully sculpted carbon composite faring covers the chassis, which sports compact permanent magnet levitation, acceleration, braking, and safety measures.
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Giegel also noted that the sled's top speed of 115 mph was hampered by the lack of a levitation system.
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Jumpstartfund's Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced Monday morning that it has secured a magnetic levitation system for its Hyperloop project.
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Since levitation is categorically impossible, it shouldn't matter that heavier objects, like bowling balls and cows, are harder to lift.
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As the show's subtitle suggests, evoking lightness and levitation was clearly a goal; some paintings here seem ready for takeoff.
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At each it was pleasant to murmur "How did he do that?" about something as anodyne as a spectacular levitation.
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"Perhaps the age of miracles has returned?" thinks yet another priest, witnessing the sudden levitation of an especially annoying congregant.
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It's still unclear, for example, whether the pod should be elevated by magnetic levitation or air bearings — a cushion of air.
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We had The Black Angels in 2008, right as they were deciding to do Austin Psych Fest, which later became Levitation.
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Acoustic levitation works when an acoustic system produces a standing wave and objects are trapped in these fixed points, or nodes.
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The design will be optimized for the previously announced passive magnetic levitation system for the yet-to-be-developed HTT loops.
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And Hiller is regularly associated with a whole host of supernatural phenomena: UFO abductions and encounters, automatism, levitation, near-death experiences.
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In April last year a Maglev – short for magnetic levitation – reached a top speed of 603 kilometers per hour (375 mph).
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Hyperloop's all-electric technology -- still in its testing phase -- uses a sealed capsule inside a vacuum tube, propelled by magnetic levitation.
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"Since I had already worked extensively on Levitation Photography, I thought of making an effort to materialise their fantasy," Agarwal said.
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There were also some less scientific theories, such as acoustic levitation—the belief that sound can cause heavy objects to levitate.
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Click here to view original GIFBubbles, magnetic levitation, and gyroscopes — there's tons of super-cool DIY physics at work in the Levitron.
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You also don't have to worry about it falling off its base; levitation works 'round the clock, and it can charge wirelessly.
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It uses magnetic levitation to rotate above the platform and can put on a mini color show with the dancing LED lights.
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The 6.47-inch P30 Pro smartphone features an OLED display with 'electro-magnetic levitation' technology, which turns the screen into a speaker.
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The company is busy gearing up for its "Kitty Hawk moment" next year when it begins testing on its passive levitation system.
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The MIT Media Lab's experiments with magnetic levitation tickle the same sci-fi fancy as Air Bonsai, but put it to use.
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A Hyperloop One sled on wheels for the first time coasted above a track using electromagnetic propulsion and magnetic levitation, Simon said.
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It involves using magnetic levitation to propel a pod through a vacuum tube at speeds of more than 700 miles per hour.
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The pod lifts above a track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to low aerodynamic drag.
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Some of these new trains, he said, used magnetic levitation, maglev, and actually floated above the tracks as they hurtled across the land.
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The "Hyperloop Levitation System" was developed by Lawrence Livermore National Labs and HTT has been working with the researchers to build the system.
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Click here to view original GIFIn this version of driving in the future, cars use magnetic levitation and roll around on big spheres.
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The car company has said that it uses "magnetic levitation" and "liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors and permanent magnets" to achieve hover flight. 9.
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Investment in two way high speed under ground rail magnetic levitation vehicles will help US compete with economies in Japan, China and Europe.
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But until Granade knows which levitation tech Hyperloop One is going with, it's tough to make a call about its system a whole.
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All three are in the early stages of building tracks on which to test the propulsion and levitation technology that undergird the Hyperloop.
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Elon Musk's Hyperloop proposal envisions aluminum pods traveling through frictionless tubes at up to 760 mph, some forms of which using magnetic levitation.
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Specifically, it's a passive magnetic levitation system originally developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Labs in California as part of the Inductrack system.
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This means that, among other things, transportation of passenger modules can be tested here, as well as vacuum generation and magnetic levitation (Maglev).
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In "Conjurations" (2007-2009), she reimagined early trick photography to create pictures of levitation and other hackneyed staples of the popular magician's repertoire.
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The vehicle floats above the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag.
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Their technology combines vacuum-sealed tunnels and magnetic levitation to shoot pods from Point A to Point B at up to 700 mph.
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"The levitation of the Pentagon was a happening that demystified the authority of the military," Allen Ginsberg, one of the exorcism's organizers, said.
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After a few rings, I was connected to a fictional pirate radio station called Levitation FM, hosted by an enthusiastic host called Normski.
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Elon Musk talked to the assembled teams at the start of the afternoon Hyperloop pod specifications are general enough for a variety of designs Musk's SpaceX built the 6 feet diameter, one mile long, steel tube as a test track Students anxiously watch their pods progress Pods used wheels, air levitation, or magnetic levitation in the tube Eventually hyperloop pods will carry passengers.
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The "levitation rig" uses a spinning steel disc to test the use of air bearings, one possible way to make the Hyperloop's pods levitate.
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Instead of transporting people or goods through a vacuum-sealed tunnel, Arrivo was developing something that more closely resembles high-speed magnetic levitation technology.
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In the short amount of footage released, there's a lot of dancing, a lot of singing (by Egerton himself), and there's some mild levitation.
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My friend Casey Handmer, a physicist, space enthusiast, and former levitation engineer, itemizes them in this excellent blog post from a few months ago.
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You wouldn't know the VHS cases were hollow unless you picked them up yourself, and the Ouija board's magnetic levitation is seamless and mesmerizing.
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Even with the magnetic levitation and pods, both of which are described in Elon Musk's 2013 Hyperloop white paper, this isn't really hyperloop anymore.
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The pod's lightness is in part due to the undercarriage, which integrated a levitation system, stabilization system, and safety system into just one part.
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But the series retains the screwball-vérité look established in the film by Clement and Waititi, combining naturalistic shaky-cam with exaggerated levitation effects.
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The ball clearly passed through the hoop before its odd levitation, but the ruling on the court was no basket, to the Rockets' disbelief.
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Superconducting magnets have many uses, such as magnetic levitation (which allows trains to float above their tracks), nuclear magnetic resonance and even driving submarines.
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The Levitation, which was backed via a successful Indiegogo campaign earlier this year, is up for preorder, running a fairly cost prohibitive $1,750 per leg.
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Columbia drifts through the skies above America—and beyond—carried by blimps and balloons and driven by reactors and propellers, and something called quantum levitation.
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Vibranium-powered streetcars hover through the trendy neighborhood of Steptown, as a magnetic-levitation train is seen in the distance, zipping along an elevated track.
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Whether it's eye-catching shuffles or immaculate two-card moves that look more like levitation than card tricks, Mueller knows his way around a deck.
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What a physicist says: Hyperloop One built a "Levitation Test Rig" that you can see in action on its Facebook page, and talked to Engineering.
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Arx Pax, a California-based company that started as a hoverboard manufacturer now believes its magnetic levitation engines will ultimately be used in the hyperloop.
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More recently than Shannon, Arkansas artist Guy Bell has taken the concepts of magnetic levitation into the world of surveillance, conspiracy theories, and the occult.
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The objects can bestow strange powers to humans, like levitation or telekinesis, but only if the Board allows that object to bond to that person.
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How it works: Virgin Hyperloop One says it's successfully tested the vehicle at scale, using electric propulsion and electromagnetic levitation in a vacuum-like tube.
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They requested a permit to lift the Pentagon 300 feet in the air; the permit administrator only granted them a levitation of 10 feet, maximum.
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The news comes just days after rival hyperloop builder Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced a licensing deal to power its own prototype with magnetic levitation technology.
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Rated five stars, Flyte is a light that literally defies gravity using magnetic levitation, while the bulb is powered by the electromagnetic field and mercury particles.
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Levitation is key to a working Hyperloop, since the concept's theoretically borderline supersonic speeds are based on the idea of eliminating as much friction as possible.
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Huawei is omitting an earpiece on the P30 Pro, making innovative use of electromagnetic levitation to vibrate the top of the screen to generate call audio.
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The new record is by no stretch the fastest a sled has ever been accelerated down a track, but it's a new milestone for magnetic levitation.
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Japan: A potential $100 billion to be spent on public projects such as the Tokyo-Osaka magnetic levitation train system and post-earthquake reconstruction in Kyushu.
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The show, which will debut on the platform on October 12, is about the levitation game of Light as a Feather that goes horribly, strangely awry.
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The system is "a cheaper, safer alternative" to regular magnetic levitation, or maglev, which is currently in operation powering high-speed trains in China and Europe.
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The company says that all aspects of the system, from motors, to electronics, to the vacuum pump and magnetic levitation mechanism worked well during the test.
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In China and Japan, magnetic levitation — or Maglev — trains offer a tantalizing glimpse of the high-speed rail travel that could be just around the corner.
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Advertisements for the "Greatest Performing Elephant in the World," hot air balloon flights, levitation, mesmerism, and "modern witchery" mingle in a vibrant Victorian entertainment time capsule.
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Ali had continued to learn magic over the years, and he was eager to show his old teacher a new trick he had picked up: levitation.
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Magnetic levitation and big vacuum pumps would do away with pesky friction and air resistance, letting those bus-sized vehicles zip along at speeds approaching Mach 1.
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Passive magnetic levitation is seemingly such an appropriate solution, it would be surprising if the other companies developing systems did not consider using some version of it.
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HTT engineers studied their options and chose Inductrack, a passive magnetic levitation technology created in the 22019s by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
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Hyperloop works by sending passenger and cargo pods through a very low pressure, near-vacuum environment using magnetic levitation to achieve very high speeds over long distances.
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Unlike prior acoustic levitation experiments, which required many transducers to produce many different kinds of precisely tailored waves, the Max Plank team used a single sound source.
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The pod, dubbed the XP-7473, glided above the track using magnetic levitation, which limits aerodynamic drag and theoretically allows for a top speed of 760 mph.
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A Virgin Hyperloop One pod quickly lifts above the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag.
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Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch (with his Cloak of Levitation) and Mark Ruffalo are all playing their trademark characters in their war for Thanos' intergalactic space jewelry.
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The special featured a series of magic performances showcasing some classic tricks: a woman being speared by swords, a series of riffs on three-card monte, levitation.
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"Everyone has a story," said Mark Collins, 54, who recalled working in a bank when Ali, then in his magic-trick phase, performed an illusion of levitation.
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The Hyperloop One system utilizes electric propulsion and electromagnetic levitation in a vacuum-like tunnel to run pods at estimated top speeds of 670 miles per hour.
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An even more unusual example is Bitcoin, which evolved its parallel infrastructure (miners and nodes) from scratch straight into Act III, an extraordinary instance of bootstrap levitation.
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Shangai's magnetic levitation train maxes out at 270 miles per hour, and the super-fast CRH380A train can reach speeds of up to 302 miles per hour.
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It absorbs more than 99% of visible light, removing almost all reflections, according to Levitation 29, the creative agency that collaborated with Surrey Nano Systems and BMW.
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While the coating may hide certain features of the car's body, it also accentuates the Iconic Glow kidney grille, twin headlights, and taillights, according to Levitation 29.
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You're a big part of Levitation, but of the other festivals, is there one in particular you prefer in terms of audience, or just the general crowd?
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At first, it used an electric propulsion system to bring it up to speed, and then, the wheels retracted so that a magnetic levitation system could take over.
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Andreas Schierenbeck's newest elevator, based on magnetic-levitation technology developed for high-speed trains, can move sideways as well as up and down inside the tower's 12 shafts.
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He suggested that the first commercial hyperloop pods should use wheels (which are slower) as opposed to air bearings or magnetized levitation, because wheels are a tested technology.
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Check out the video above to learn more about how acoustic levitation works, what it might be good for, and why you shouldn't expect to levitate anytime soon.
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In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the Youth International Party, better known as the yippies, decided that the Pentagon was in need of an exorcism—and a levitation.
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A bit detached from the nitty-gritty of the subways, Mr. Moynihan wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to study magnetic levitation.
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Geoffray's other work, "Suspendue" (2016), shows the convulsing body of a woman hanging in the air, irresistibly recalling the famous levitation scene from Andre Tarkovsty's film The Mirror (1975).
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The anointed growth leaders might have done all they can for now, but their levitation was the market's way of heralding a new payoff phase of the information revolution.
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The train levitates above the tracks using magnetic levitation (maglev) technology, and the lack of wheels and engines means the train is frictionless, allowing it to reach 267 mph.
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The only other festival like that in Austin for me is Levitation, where I know that I'm gonna see people from France, or Sweden or Vancouver or South America.
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Her figures, which are nearly life-size or bigger, are usually seen in midair — where the gods mostly dwell — and their levitation itself is exciting, often tinged with lust.
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We've probably seen the best this market has to offer in terms of the gain-versus-pain ratio reflected in the low-volatility levitation of last year and January.
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The first planet they come to is inhabited by sentient plant life which have mastered the secrets of levitation and which "speak color" (a fun idea somewhat unsatisfyingly explained here).
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Because the levitation is created by movement, a loss of power simply means the pod would slowly decelerate, and only drop to the track when its speed is near zero.
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Hyperloop, based in downtown Los Angeles, claims to be building the "5th mode of transportation," with hardware like levitation rigs, wind tunnels and electromagnetic test stands, according to its website.
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Black Panther explains that the trains run on magnetic levitation, or maglev, through some dialogue between Shuri, T'Challa's inventive genius sister (Letitia Wright), and CIA agent Everett Ross (Martin Freeman).
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Obayashi tumbled after reports it had been raided by prosecutors investigating what media reports said were allegations that the construction firm had rigged bids for Japan's magnetic levitation train line.
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"So there will be a vehicle inside this tube going back and forth with the levitation system we're using, the stabilization system we're using and the safety systems," he said.
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It will allocate money to social programs and infrastructure, including the construction of a high-speed train that will use magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology to float above its tracks.
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With a flick of his torso, a hint of levitation and a series of seemingly impossible contortions, Vidal flung himself to the floor like a bag of ritualised animal bones.
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Indigenous to New Orleans, beignets are of the same genus as doughnuts but a separate species: pieces of puffed-up fried dough with an airiness somewhere between buoyancy and levitation.
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It's called acoustic levitation, and after breaking your brain with what seems to be an optical illusion, it's poised to deliver advances in pharmacology, chemistry more broadly, and even robotics.
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But this test will be the full gamut, including the iconic vacuum tube, that will propel a prototype about 500 meters down a track with magnetic levitation, the Review-Journal reported.
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They did it using acoustic levitation, a technique often used to study bubbles and foams, among other applications, suspending them in mid-air to keep gravity from causing them to coarsen.
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"Single-beam levitation could manipulate particles inside our body for applications in targeted drug delivery or acoustically controlled micro-machines that do not interfere with magnetic resonance imaging," the study stated.
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While it is exciting HTT has chosen a levitation technology and announced another location for its Hyperloop, it's likely still at least a decade away from going into operation, if ever.
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Fabricating an air-tight steel tube hundreds of miles long, with solar-powered linear motors providing propulsion while supporting passenger pods on air-bearings or by magnetic levitation is challenging enough.
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This planted the seeds for an idea: What if someone created a religion like Scientology that actually worked—that did give people transcendent mental power, such as mind-reading and levitation?
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A few tweets citing unnamed sources claimed that the Levitation music festival, which was scheduled to open its gates in less than 24 hours, had been cancelled by Austin's Travis County.
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In support of Acoustic Levitation, Devin has been touring Europe and the United States with his early rap group, the Odd Squad, which consists of Devin's longtime friends Rob Quest and Jugg.
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An early winner, from MIT, envisioned a 550-pound design of aluminum, carbon fiber, and polycarbonate that uses neodymium magnets for levitation, wheels for low-speed movement, and hydraulic brakes for stopping.
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The statement followed local media reports over the weekend that Obayashi was under investigation due to suspected inappropriate behaviour during bidding for contracts related to a magnetic levitation (maglev) train line project.
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I don't mind the notch, which is as tiny as you can make it, with Huawei even ditching the earpiece for a magnetic levitation approach that vibrates the screen to generate sound.
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That included extended the magnetic levitation track, depressurizing the entire length of tube and updating the motor and guidance systems, he said, all of which performed successfully in keeping with company projections.
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WARR also took home one of three innovation prizes, in recognition of the team's ambitious move to construct two pods: one for the speed competition and another to demonstrate its levitation capabilities.
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They're calling the device the GauntLev, or Gauntlet of Levitation; not only does it make particles float but it also allows wearers to capture the particles, move them around, and combine them.
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Gordon T. Danby, a physicist who with a colleague invented superconducting magnetic-levitation trains in the 1960s and then spent decades in largely futile efforts to get them built, died on Aug.
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The previous year's Levitation had its first day turned on its head by record rainfall, with some early shows cancelled, a stage moved due to flooding, and mud taking over the grounds.
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Later, Mr. Singer, 60, showed me that the baton was a levitation wand, one of his many methods of staving off the most serious symptoms of his bipolar and borderline personality disorders.
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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, one of two LA-based startups working to build Elon Musk's futuristic transportation system, announced today that it has licensed a technology called "passive magnetic levitation" to power its prototype.
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"Lazarus" pares down the intergalactic theatrics, focusing almost solely on Bowie as he writhes on what looks to be a hospice bed, dancing in a manner shot to look a little like levitation.
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Arx Pax, the makers of the Hendo Hoverboards (actual hoverboards that actually hover), will be demonstrating its new magnetic levitation technology, which roughly half of the student teams are utilizing in their designs.
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The levitation concept is, in part, a response to the dissent for the project expressed by locals in Santander, who were concerned that the new building would block the view of the sea.
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This kind of "acoustic levitation," as it's called, is not exactly new — we see it being used as a trick here and there, but so far there have been no obvious practical applications.
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In the test, the company's hyperloop vehicle — which uses magnetic levitation, or mag-lev, technology — pulled 2 Gs while reaching 70 miles per hour down the length of the company's test track in Nevada.
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The pod takes elements from air and space travel, the tube from rail and civil infrastructure, and the levitation is unique, said Hyperloop One Engineer Kristen Hammer, creating a completely new way to travel.
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Click here to view original GIFAn unknown breakthrough in consumer levitation technology has led to an influx of floating speakers that don't sound any different, but look kinda cool—were this the mid-'80s.
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But Clarkson is back this year with a new project, Making Weather, that combines his original Smart Cloud with magnetic levitation technology from Crealev to solve this problem by making a true floating cloud.
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About 10% also recalled having "near-death experiences" characterized by a variety of sensations such as detachment from one's body, feelings of levitation, warmth and the presence of a light, according to the study.
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This will include licensing and research development of the tube infrastructure and safety platform, a full-scale test track, and access to HTT's levitation, propulsion, and battery technology as well as passenger experience designs.
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The strategic framework agreement aims to combine two technologies – magnetic levitation to eliminate ground friction, and vacuum tubes to reduce air resistance – to achieve a "hypersonic" mode of transportation, Geely said in a statement.
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This was designed to avoid using magnetic levitation—an existing technology that would have led to prohibitive costs on long routes—but it was inefficient and it would have punished passengers with a hellish noise.
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Up until this point, HTT has only released renderings and cool illustrations of its system, which purports to use passive magnetic levitation to shoot passenger-filled tubes through an airless tube at passenger jet-speeds.
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According to Virgin Hyperloop One: All components of the system were successfully tested including the airlock, highly efficient electric motor, advanced controls and power electronics, custom magnetic levitation and guidance, pod suspension, and the vacuum.
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Notably, less than 48 hours before Hyperloop One was set to demonstrate its propulsion system, Hyperloop Transportation announced that it had exclusively licensed a type of magnetic levitation called passive maglev to power its prototype.
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Anthony does a good job explaining the science in his video, but it's an effect called Optical levitation where the momentum of photons is transferred to an object, trapping it in a beam of light.
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Professional engineering teams were there pitching hyperloop braking systems, tube designs, and high speed wheels that could be used in case magnetic levitation doesn't work out or proves too complicated for an initial hyperloop design.
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TOKYO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Tokyo prosecutors raided the headquarters of Japan's Taisei Corp on Wednesday over alleged antitrust violations linked to $80 billion worth of magnetic levitation (maglev) train line projects, a company spokesman said.
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TOKYO, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Tokyo prosecutors have raided the headquarters of at least two of Japan's biggest construction firms for alleged antitrust violations linked to $80 billion worth of magnetic levitation (maglev) train line projects.
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On Tuesday, Baskin went to her local Costco and replaced signs for sold-out products, like water and rice, with signs for magical items like boots of levitation, an enchanted battle ax, and summoning orbs.
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"Acoustic levitation," the ability to move particles using only sound waves, has been explored by researchers for years, but until now it has only been able to move small objects along one axis at a time.
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To get a rider all the way to her destination, that pod will leave the tube—presumably, "hyperjump" means hopping off the levitation rig and onto road-going wheels—and start driving itself down city streets.
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Any continued levitation of stock prices, especially if it's still led by the tech giants now up more than 25 percent on the year, will stoke more concerns about overheated capital markets decoupling from the economy.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japan Fair Trade Commission said on Friday that it would press criminal charges against four construction firms for suspected collusion over contracts for an $80 billion high-speed magnetic levitation (maglev) train line.
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Based on magnetic-levitation technology developed for high-speed trains, the MULTI elevator moves from shaft to shaft with multiple cars in each, offering the potential to revolutionize the way people move within high-rise buildings.
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Japanese prosecutors on Monday raided the offices of two of the country's biggest construction firms as they expanded an investigation into suspected collusion over contracts for an $80 billion high-speed magnetic levitation (maglev) train line.
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And with 12 years of living and playing in the city—he's one of the creator's of Austin's annual psych fest, Levitation —he's heard all the shitty arguments about why the city isn't "cool" any more.
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Along with personal jetpacks for every man, woman, and child (sure, why not), levitation is one of those conveniences that sci-fi has long promised us but has yet to deliver, other than magnetically levitating trains.
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Meet Transpod, a Canadian hyperloop startup that thinks its proprietary technology — which it says improves upon magnetic levitation in both cost and efficiency — can enable the next, as the founders call it, "true leap forward" in transportation.
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Even though he's about to get the full Hollywood C.G.I. treatment, Doctor Strange has never been a superstar of the Marvel Universe — more like an endearing benchwarmer with a knuckleball personality and a wacky Cloak of Levitation.
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Not owned by the serial entrepreneur (Musk open-sourced the idea), Virgin Hyperloop One aims to use magnetic levitation technology to transport pods along vacuum-sealed tubes at 700mph -- not far shy the current land speed record.
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"The first Vantablack car is certainly a big tick in the box when it comes to dream projects and opens the way for even more large-scale concepts — like a stadium!" said Levitation 29 Director Benjamin Males.
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The movie, which debuted earlier this year at Sundance, follows Bo (Black Nativity star Jacob Latimore), a gifted Los Angeles street magician who uses a powerful electromagnetic device to do levitation tricks as a way of getting by.
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The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the top prize at the first round of Hyperloop's pod design competition last month, but dozens of other teams won in various categories like propulsion, design, levitation, and braking.
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The construction sector slipped 1.5 percent and was the worst performer on the board, after Tokyo prosecutors raided Japanese construction companies on suspicion of antitrust breaches related to $80 billion worth of magnetic levitation (maglev) train line projects.
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"Utilizing a passive levitation system will eliminate the need for power stations along the Hyperloop track, which makes this system the most suitable for the application and will keep construction costs low," said Bibop Gresta, COO of HTT.
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The construction sector slipped 1.7 percent and was the worst performer on the board, after Tokyo prosecutors raided Japanese construction companies on suspicion of antitrust breaches related to $80 billion worth of magnetic levitation (maglev) train line projects.
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The so-called 'Waterloop,' (bonus points for puns) got a test run yesterday, making the team the first to demonstrate a functioning, pneumatic levitation system on a test track using nothing but air to float their test objects.
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"The first Vantablack car is certainly a big tick in the box when it comes to dream projects and opens the way for even more large-scale concepts- like a stadium!" said Director of Levitation 29 Benjamin Males.
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But all these powers feel really good, and levitation especially feels a bit god-like as you make impossible jumps, land like a feather at the end of what should be fatal falls, and strike enemies from above.
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TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - The Japan Fair Trade Commission said on Friday that it would press criminal charges against four construction firms for suspected collusion over contracts for an $80 billion high-speed magnetic levitation (maglev) train line.
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This bull market cycle arguably already had its rerun of 1995-style low-drama levitation in 2013, when the Fed calmed fears of the end of its stimulus and a modestly valued stock market marched higher by 30 percent.
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An even more radical concept, the Goodyear Eagle 360 Urban, is as round as a beach ball and connected to the car using "magnetic levitation, which suspends the tire from the car by magnetic fields," according to the company.
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The broader hyperloop idea goes back to August 2013, when Musk wrote up a blueprint for a transportation system that would use technology such as propulsion and magnetic levitation to shoot humans from one city to another very quickly.
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The company's goal is to build transportation networks for both people and cargo, using super low pressure sealed tubes and pods that float along a track using magnetic levitation, based on a technical concept first proposed by Elon Musk.
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The multimedia design company based between Moscow and Los Angeles—also behind projection mapped dance piece Levitation and the Epicenter light performance—partnered with choreographer Anna Abalikhina to create the piece, in which dancers perform with their digitized selves.
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But beyond the entertainment value, acoustic levitation is helping Benmore and his team do science: They're suspending pharmaceuticals and watching how molecules interact, by pointing the most intense x-ray source in the Western Hemisphere at the acoustic levitator.
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Maybe because I waited five years for this moment, maybe because its interior was empty or maybe because they are making a windowless magnetic levitation train instead of the unrealizable concept introduced by Elon Musk, I felt a slight disappointment.
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Contestants had less than a year to engineer and build these pods, and while there were a handful of versions presented, the majority of the pods used one of three propulsion systems: wheeled designs, magnetic levitation, and air bearing suspension.
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Per the Website:Borrowing similar physics principles to Quantum Locking (also known as "Flux Pinning"), our Levitating CUP uses magnetic levitation, or more specifically "Electromagnetic Suspension", in which electromagnets are used to stabilize the levitating cup which has a magnetic base.
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The case involved strange voices, levitation, flying objects, furniture being moved through the air, cold breezes and more – and while some called it a hoax, others considered it to be one of the most witnessed cases of supernatural activity to date.
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The test track under construction in NevadaAlthough Hyperloop One could not comment on announcements by its competitors, I did ask Josh Giegel, senior vice president of engineering, to explain the difference between passive magnetic levitation and Hyperloop One's propulsion technology.
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McNamara said it was only possible to do these tests in space, as using magnetic levitation would add its own disruptors and a drop tower would only give a few seconds' freefall when the measurements need to be taken over hours.
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Mr. Musk's foray into tunnels is part of a flurry of proposals nationwide by private companies that sound more like something out of the animated television show "The Jetsons": driverless cars, pilotless airplanes, flying taxis, magnetic levitation trains and electric scooters.
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The XP-1 pod used the company's magnetic levitation (or mag-lev) propulsion system to hit a top speed of 13 mph, traveling a total of 1,433 feet, exponentially improving on the first test's 69 mph and 315 foot marks.
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Click here to view original GIFGif: From video by US Air ForceHold on to your hats: The US Air Force has accelerated a sled down a magnetic levitation track at an incredible 633 mph, setting a new world record in the process.
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"We've tested levitation technologies, we've tested the aerodynamics in those low-pressure environments, we've tested the tube," said CEO Rob Lloyd, when I met him at Hyperloop One's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, where about 160 employees are working on the project.
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The magnetic wheels and the air levitation system were not in sync, he told me, meaning the fact the pod failed to move the length of the track was a good thing—fail-safes designed to prevent a catastrophic crash were working.
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They climb three flights of stairs, sit and wait hours, only to catch a few seconds of the superconducting magnetic levitation train, or SCMaglev — a cutting edge "super" train that uses powerful magnets and ground coil to reach speeds topping 300 mph.
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Of course, the SAFE Building System wouldn't be using the company's magnetic levitation technology to make buildings float, but floating pontoons like those used to support the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge over Lake Washington or Japan's Mega-Float runway in Tokyo Bay.
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The proposed system will use a magnetic-levitation tech to shoot pods along its track at speeds of up to 200 mph, aiming to cut down local travel times down on routes that currently take over an hour to less than ten minutes.
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SHANGHAI, May 6 (Reuters) - China has begun a trial run of its first magnetic levitation train, completely designed and built by local firms, marking a major leap in the technological capability of the country's rail transport sector, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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" Levitation shared photos of the destruction, which Fitzpatrick said helped put things into perspective for would-be attendees: "Beyond the anger, which is completely understandable, so many people offered understanding, especially after we were all able to see the photos of the ranch.
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The Magicians: Hall of Magic Beyond that, visitors can choose their own adventures; there's a levitation room, a potions room, a musical book shelf and the forest of Fillory — not to mention the starry sky above that blocks out the entire outside world.
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Click here to view original GIFIt may not be even remotely close to what The Doctor uses on Doctor Who, but a team at the University of Bristol in England has created a sonic screwdriver that utilizes the powers of acoustic levitation to move objects.
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"Utilizing a passive levitation system will eliminate the need for power stations along the Hyperloop track, which makes this system the most suitable for the application and will keep construction costs low," said Bibop Gresta, chief operating officer of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, in a statement.
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"The public wants something new" Dozens of other winners in propulsion, design, levitation, and braking were also announced at the end of the two-day competition, which also featured technology demonstrations like Arx Pax's hover engine, and a speech by US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
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The Stranger Things 2 score gives less away than, say, Game of Thrones (which you'd think would be layered in secrecy but which this reporter quickly cracked), so the climactic track "Levitation" isn't different from the others apart from being slow and swelling with significance.
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Musk's original design did this with little jets of air on the bottom of each pod (similar to how an air hockey table would work if the air came out of the puck), but most hyperloop engineers now propose achieving pod levitation with magnets.
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That notch may not be the trendiest thing to have — hole-punch camera cutouts are all the rage these days — but Huawei did innovate here by completely removing the top speaker and replacing it with "electro-magnetic levitation" technology that turns the screen itself into a speaker.
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Levitation in and of itself might have become boring, but the curling stream of incense that pours out of the base of the $115 Yun adds a new dimension of movement that — I'd guess — is very good to stare at when gazing into the middle-distance.
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"Utilizing a passive levitation system will eliminate the need for power stations along the Hyperloop track, which makes this system the most suitable for the application and will keep construction costs low," Bibop Gresta, chief operating officer of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, said in a press release.
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The construction sector slipped 0.7 percent and was the second worst sectoral performer, with Taisei Corp sliding 2.7 percent after the Nikkei business daily reported that the construction firm had asked rival Obayashi Corp to refrain from bidding on a project for magnetic levitation (maglev) trains.
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Earlier this month, Hyperloop One conducted its first public open-air test of its propulsion system in the Nevada desert, while HTT's developments have so far been relegated to press releases (the company also recently announced it had licensed a "cheaper, safer" form of magnetic levitation).
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The company has some more immediately tangible news, too: It finished installing the tube component of its DeveLop test track, the 1,640-foot long full-scale testing site which will help it ready levitation, propulsion, vehicle control and vacuum pressurization technologies ahead of a commercial launch.
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Less than a day after receiving word from the county that Levitation was a no-go, the organizers somehow managed to book twelve shows in Austin overnight, the majority of which featured multiple like-minded artists, cost five dollars and benefitted the Red Cross' flood relief program.
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Those innovations are a low pressure tube which allows for less friction, a 'Pod' which can carry either people or cargo, an electric propulsion system that operates using the same principles of a rail gun, and a levitation system that lifts the pod off the track.
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The construction sector slipped 1.0 percent and was the worst sectoral performer again, with Taisei Corp diving more than 4 percent after the Nikkei business daily reported that the construction firm had asked rival Obayashi Corp to refrain from bidding on a project for magnetic levitation (maglev) trains.
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On the other hand, the construction sector slipped 0.4 percent and was the worst performer on the board after news Tokyo prosecutors had raided the headquarters of at least two of Japan's biggest construction firms for alleged antitrust violations linked to $80 billion worth of magnetic levitation (maglev) train line projects.
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The China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), one of the world's largest train manufacturers, recently announced that it had begun work on a new type of magnetic levitation train that will able to achieve a top speed of 373 mph (600 km/hr), which is faster than any other train currently in operation.
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Illusions: The Art of Magic is a book and exhibition at the McCord Museum in Montreal featuring hundreds of posters from the Golden Age of Magic The "Golden Age" of magic coincided with the heyday of the lithographic poster, and acts involving levitation, decapitation, escapes, hypnotism, and other illusions were lavishly advertised.
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Click here to view original GIFHe might have billions of dollars, a company that promises to revolutionize space travel, and an upgraded full head of hair, but Elon Musk's Hyperloop will never be as cool as this superconducting quantum levitation Möbius strip race track created by students at Ithaca College's Low Temperature Physics Lab.
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But, Lessard said, rLoop is still only in the "final stages" of assessing the progress Arrivo's employees had made toward developing a type of hyperloop that relies on magnetic levitation (as opposed to the vacuum-based solution that was originally proposed by Elon Musk when he introduced the hyperloop idea in a 2013 white paper).
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As several dozen of the company's engineers and executives watched an array of monitors nervously, a metal sled accelerated to 22 mph (210 km/h), achieved levitation, and flew about 500 feet (152 meters) down the length of a 1,600-foot (487-meter) steel tube that had most of the air sucked out of it.
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The band's ensuing success includes a gig as the touring band for Austin psych legend Roky Erickson (one of their great inspirations), founding the acclaimed Austin Psych Fest (now named Levitation), and a break out moment when they hit the top 50 on the Billboard charts and Late Night with David Letterman with Phosphene Dream.
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But through judicious selection and juxtaposition, The Jubilee Show escapes that trap, and the paintings feel more open and less oppressive — a sensation signaled by another, similarly scaled canvas in the exhibition's first room, "Levitation ('The Blind,' II)" (1915), which depicts two men wearing dun-colored smocks but no pants or shoes, floating high above a hilly landscape.
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Things get a bit more interesting from there with Levitate, which allows you to float in the air, the dodge move Evade, Launch, which lets you pick up all kinds of objects and launch them at destructive speeds, a Levitation attack called Slam, the self-explanatory Shield, and Seize, which is a sort of mind control move that turns enemies into allies.
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Going beyond the social media-friendly tchotchke, we've decided to take a look back at the artists and innovators who explored the technology and aesthetics of levitation so that Air Bonsai could shatter it's $80,000 Kickstarter goal, enter mass production heaven, and inevitably become the next great cubicle decoration for the coworker you don't know well enough to get creative with.
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No changes) * Manufacturers focus on technology in next-generation smart lifts * ThyssenKrupp's magnetic-levitation prototype can move sideways * Price is key in cost-conscious market By John Miller and Tom Käckenhoff DUESSELDORF/ZURICH, Dec 15 (Reuters) - ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 metres (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking vertically.
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