By Evan Ackerman
The above pics aren’t a photoshop job; that giant Buddha is actually levitating. Netherlands based Crealev has developed a new technology that is able to levitate an open platform with whatever you want on top to a significant height in a stable and resilient way. Crealev isn’t saying much about how it all works, but they do say that the base can be more or less flat (i.e. built into a table), it’s scalable (increasing the diameter of the base causes a proportional increase in the levitation height), it’s modular and relatively inexpensive (whatever that means), and it uses relatively low power (between 0.5 and 8 watts for their basic demonstrator). Here’s some video, half of which is unfortunately an intro:
Crealev is looking to commercialize this, and according to their website you can place orders for custom objects, but there’s no word on price as of yet.
How the fugg does that work?!
Looks like hypersonic acoustic levitation to me
A coil with a lot of juice in the base. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning
Thats my guess!