Gallery of posts up to 10-10-2007

Here’s a new levitating deco gadget. Instead of the usual Earth globes or other planets, this one’s more mundane. Actually, it’s quite a nice present for any sports buff.

Whether it’s that snobby boss of yours, or your kid you’re pitching to on Saturday morning, you’ll find one for any of them.

There’s a golf ball floating above a mini pitch, and a baseball that levitates above a base.

Click on for some bigger pictures and for the little extra info you need to know about these.

I tell you, scientists are a mad bunch. Who in their right mind would invent vehicles that move much faster than the speed of sound, or even this thing we call a keyboard that makes communication and documentation so much easier compared to the traditional pen and paper route? Well, them mad scientists are at it again, having recently discovered a novel method of levitating extremely tiny objects that could see a revolution come upon the design of micro machines. This new report claims that physicists are now able to manipulate the Casimir force (vastly different from the fictional Force found in the Star Wars universe) that under normal circumstances, causes objects to stick together via quantum force.

Gadget Gallery (up to 01-26-2007)

After talking about a kid’s scooter yesterday, I decided to stick to the same topic today but at the same time add a little more power, and by that I mean talking about a Levitating Hover Scooter. We already mentioned a normal hover like 1 year ago, and even gave a link to the Hoover + Scooter product, but no information was provided at that time.

• First of all: this is a very expensive transportation gadget that costs over $15,000 (more exactly $17,000) and for normal mortals like most of us, it is only a dream to own one. This personal hover was praised by the NYTimes as being a “miniature flying saucer with handlebars“ so that must mean it is really good.
• The most important thing: speed! Sadly, it seems like the “scoohoover” has a maximum speed of 15mph, to be honest I expected more.

The Levitating Galileo Gravitator is not only a bit of a mouthful but it’s also a cool looking toy/ornament.

The Levitating Galileo Gravitator enables you magically float Galileo’s Spheres in midair, well not midair as they have to be inside the levitating chamber (for want of a better word).

The Galileo Gravitator come with 4 spheres to represent the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. As well as magnetically floating the spheres you can also flick a switch and have them rotate.

The is one geeky desk toy and is available from that geeky store, Think Geek.

Thanks to Love Battery from Grunge Music Forum for the tip.

If you thought an uncle making a penny appear from behind your ear was magic you’ll be amazed by the Magic Penny Magnet Kit.

The kit combines both science and magic to provide you with some fun experiments (gees you could even say it’s educational).

With regards to gadgets there’s only 2 things better than buying your own

1. Being given a gadget
2. Making your own gizmo

The book Gonzo Gizmos is all about the latter with projects like

• A rotary steam engine from a candle, a soda can, a length of copper tubing
• A hot dog roaster that only needs just a flexible plastic mirror, a wooden box, a sunny day, and algebra
• Levitating magnets

It kind of reminds me of the program Brainiacs. Available from Think Geek.