Levitos, A Levitating Indoor Planter: Garden in the Sky

Because in the future, everything will levitate, some genius has created the $121 Levitos Plant Pot, a small planter that levitates above its base so your favorite houseplant can admire the view from above. The levitating planter operates via electromagnetic induction powered by an AC adapter and hovers about 2 cm above the walnut finish base. Your plant never had it so good!

Not only does the planter hover, but it’s also designed to rotate slowly, ensuring your plant gets sunlight from all angles for lush, uniform growth. Plus, I think we can all agree; it looks even cooler rotating. “Whee!” I imagine your plant thinking as it rotates, just before getting motion sickness.

So, what do you think the next levitating product to hit the market will be? I’m hoping for a levitating bed. When levitating beds are the norm, that’s when we’ll really know we’re living in the future. Right now? Right now, we might as well be sleeping in caves and getting mauled to death by sabertooth tigers trying to hunt wooly mammoths. And where the heck are the x-ray glasses we were promised?!

Dad Built His Son a Working Hovercraft

Some dads are truly awesome. Like Minnesota Savvysherpa, Inc research scientist Paul Boswell. He is a truly cool dad, having built a working hovercraft for his son, Oliver.

You can watch the video below and see the kid put it through its paces. Man, that thing looks like a lot of fun. I wish that my dad had made me something like that. Of course, my dad wasn’t a scientist. It would have been fun to hover around the neighborhood like this kid does in his driveway. Now I’m jealous.

I wonder if he would build me one? If you are reading this Paul, I’m willing to take a plane ride to pick it up. I’ll just drive it home.

[via Laughing Squid]

Google Wing Drones Can Fly Over Private Land Thanks to NASA


Earlier this year Google gave a glimpse into their secret drone program called project Wing. Google aims to develop a delivery solution for rural areas with fast drones. The 25kg Wing drone...

Flyte Levitating Light Bulb: The Lightest Light

The typical light bulb is really boring. You put it in the socket and it glows to provide you light. There are all sorts of lamps on the market, but if you want something that it as much a conversation piece as a source of illumination, the Flyte levitating light bulb is what you need.

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Flyte has a base made from sustainable wood like oak, ash, or walnut. The base hides an electromagnet to make the bulb float, as well as a wireless power transmitter. It was designed in Sweden and uses energy efficient LEDs that are rated for 50,000 hours. That means you can leave it on for 12 hours a day for eleven years.

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Flyte is raising funds for production on Kickstarter and a pledge of $249(USD) or more will get you one shipping in October. The project was seeking $80,000 and has raised nearly $120,000 so far.

Microsoft’s 18-year-old ‘Hover’ game is reborn inside the browser

Microsoft's 18yearold 'Hover' game is reborn inside the browser

You remember Hover, right? If you're one of our many, many readers born after 1995, you probably don't. But that's OK: we're here to educate you, dear millennials. The game, which came installed on Windows 95 in the "Fun Stuff" folder, is making a comeback: Microsoft just came out with a web version that's been optimized for IE11, but will work inside any current desktop browser. As ever, it's a cross between bumper cars and Capture the Flag, with three hovercraft options, and a choice between single- and multi-player modes. What's especially neat is that Microsoft kept all the same levels; it just brought the graphics into the WebGL era. Naturally, too, you can use either shortcuts or touch gestures. If all this sounds dandy, we suggest you hit up the source link below sometime during your lunch hour. And, not to spoil an easter-egg, but be sure to type in "bambi" when you get to the "single player" / "multi-player" page -- someone at Microsoft's got a sense of humor, we'll say that much.%Gallery-slideshow99760%

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Nokia adds Peek hover function to Lumias running latest Amber OS update

Nokia adds Peek hover function to Lumias running latest Amber OS update

It doesn't come close to the suite of air gestures Samsung's included in the Galaxy S 4, but Nokia's pushing out an update to give Lumia owners a limited taste of that hands-free functionality. Bundled into a new version 1.6 bump for display + touch settings released today is a new Peek feature, which gives Lumia owners the ability to wake their phones and glance at notifications with a mere hand wave. Sadly, it's only compatible with Lumia devices running the latest Amber update -- currently set for a vague "summer" rollout -- which makes this hover-to-wake function a 925-only affair for the time being.

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Nokia adds Peek hover function to Lumias running latest Amber OS update

Nokia adds Peek hover function to Lumias running latest Amber OS update

It doesn't come close to the suite of air gestures Samsung's included in the Galaxy S 4, but Nokia's pushing out an update to give Lumia owners a limited taste of that hands-free functionality. Bundled into a new version 1.6 bump for display + touch settings released today is a new Peek feature, which gives Lumia owners the ability to wake their phones and glance at notifications with a mere hand wave. Sadly, it's only compatible with Lumia devices running the latest Amber update -- currently set for a vague "summer" rollout -- which makes this hover-to-wake function a 925-only affair for the time being.

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Flying Bike Will Get You out of a Traffic Jam

How’d you like to be able to fly over the traffic while riding your bike to work? This flying bike could be just the ticket. This remote-controlled bike actually left the ground for about five minutes. But not with a human onboard. A styrofoam dummy was used instead because it still needs more powerful propellers to carry a real passenger.

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The helicopter bike comes from a teamup of three Czech companies. It has four large, battery-powered propellers mounted inside two cages, and weighs a total of 209lbs. It may not do much more than lift off and hover a few feet off the ground, but as they improve things it will get better. Imagine a future full of flying bikes. Of course, if they looked like this, they’d have to fly all of the time, because this thing is too wide and long for the road. It’s also ridiculously loud. Yeah it isn’t very practical. It’s more a proof of concept. But it’s still pretty fun to watch it in flight…

Still, if they can make the engine stronger and have the pilot sitting back more, it could be an economical way to put flying vehicles in the sky.

[via Gizmodo via OhGizmo!]

Supposed Galaxy S IV leak resurfaces in high-res pics, lists more features and specs

Supposed Galaxy S IV leak resurfaces in highres pics, lists more features and specs

What is purported to be a dual-SIM equipped engineering sample of Samsung's Galaxy S IV popped up a few days ago in pictures and video on a Chinese forum, and now it's back for a better look. The new pictures show off what's measured as a 1080p 4.99-inch display with an embossed home key and cross-hatch textured plastic back cover (already cracked on this unit). Engadget Chinese came through with a translation, and the specs listed on it168 claim its Exynos 5410 is a 1.8GHz 8-core CPU unit, with PowerVR SGX 544MP3 GPU. The i9502 weighs in at 138g and measures 7.7mm thick, packs 2GB of RAM and 16GB ROM storage with a microSD expansion slot and has a 2600mAh battery.

Also revealed are a few more software tweaks, with the Smart Stay eye tracking that had previously been outed, plus a feature (pictured after the break) that lets users hover their fingers over the display to produce a Galaxy Note II S-Pen stylus-like effect. Check out another picture after the break or an entire slideshow past the source leak -- we're less than 24 hours away from seeing the real thing unveiled in NYC.

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