{"id":15346,"date":"2011-10-02T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T13:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=15346"},"modified":"2011-10-02T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T13:55:58","slug":"sunday-fun-a-real-flying-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/sunday-fun-a-real-flying-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: A Real Flying Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University.<\/p>\n

The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by “ripple power”; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath. The prototype, described in Applied Physics Letters<\/a>, moves at speeds of about a centimetre per second.<\/p>\n

Improvements to the design could raise that to as much as a metre per second.<\/p>\n

See full article HERE<\/strong><\/a> on BBC.<\/p>\n

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