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This Guy Made a Levitating Millennium Falcon

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Sure, we’ve all got our Millennium Falcon toys, but this ship is even cooler when it levitates. Star Wars fan and model builder @HanakiMasatoshi has built a very cool floating mini-model of the Millennium Falcon to celebrate the release of Rogue One in Japan. Now if he can only get it to travel in hyperspace.


That isn’t the force making it levitate, but a magnetic system designed by Dutch company Crealev. The system allows an object of up to 20 pounds to hover. It’s most impressive. Check it out in action in the videos below.

[via Rocketnews24 via Nerd Approved]

SoundCloud on your Desktop

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Did you get that clever joke in the title?? Did you?? 😀

This little piece of magic, called Making Weather, puts a spin on the quantum levitation speakers we’ve been seeing in the past year. Making Weather isn’t really a levitating speaker as much as it’s an awe-inspiring piece of art. The hyperrealistic cumulus cloud hovers over a magnetic plate. Beneath its fluffy exterior lies a pretty darn powerful wireless speaker. Just to add some dramatic effect, the speaker cloud also comes with concealed lighting that pulsates to the tune of your audio, generating a pretty neat looking music-synchronized lighting flashes. What a wonderfully literal way to have booming, thunderous audio!

Designers: Richard Clarkson & Crealev.

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Levitating Bluetooth Speaker (Really!)

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Meet the world’s first levitating bluetooth speaker! The OM/ONE is a spherical shaped speaker measuring 3.6″ across that levitates atop a glowing base. How does it work? Magnets of course. How do magnets work? Ask ICP about that one. Anyway, it looks like something from the future. There’s a certain intrigue about things that levitate that you can’t help but be curious about. Check out this video which gives a bit of the backstory and you can see it in action floating:

The other neat thing is that you can remove the sphere and take it anywhere without the base. It has a 15 hour battery life per charge. The speaker will work with the newest Bluetooth 4.0 standard which allows you to pair 2 of them together for full stereo sound. Like most bluetooth speakers these days, it also functions as a speaker and microphone for conference calling and other uses with your smartphone. How cool would this be sitting in the middle of the table in your conference room? Or living room. A post-modern piece of technology that’s also a conversation piece. You can order the OM/ONE for $179 each.

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Levitating Mouse

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Although currently in its testing stage and researching the market, I’d love to jump the gun and get my hands on the BAT – Levitating Wireless Computer Mouse. The story behind its development is the obvious culprit – Carpal tunnel syndrome; but I’d much rather get it for its awesomeness. The concept consists of a base (mouse pad) and floating mouse with magnet ring. I think it looks very cool and will definitely be a hit with my ilk.

Designer: KIBARDINDESIGN Studio

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Levitating Light Up Death Star Globe

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That’s no moon! One enterprising and skilled craftster Backwards Props created this homemade Star Wars collectible. He took a regular magnetic levitating globe and transformed it into Darth Vader’s little pet project. First he unwrapped the Earth’s crust to reveal the mantle.
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Then he downloaded some blueprint plans for the Death Star from the Internet (sloppy work, Storm Troopers, that’s a major security breach leaving those plans out). He cut out the “eye” and sunk it in.
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A light sanding and a coat of gray primer followed. He drilled a series of small holes and taped over them to paint the remaining part darker and not fill in his holes with paint.
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Then for the sake of accuracy to a fictional ship, he did a series of calculations to get the super star destroyer ship (which he attached) to the exact scale it should be. Wow, the Death Star really is huge, right?
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Then he put fiber optic strands in to light the whole thing up and placed it back in it’s rotating stand and presto- awesome. Here’s a video you can see it in action:

Well done sir, well done.

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