A Miniature Magic Carpet Made of Plastic Can Fly Video ...
A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University.
The 10-cm sheet of smart transparency is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current flex a thin, 10cm sheet, driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath.
The prototype, described in Applied Physics Letters, moves at speeds of around a centimetre per second.
Improvements to the design could raise that to as much as a metre per second.
The 10-cm sheet of smart transparency is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current flex a thin, 10cm sheet, driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath.
The prototype, described in Applied Physics Letters, moves at speeds of around a centimetre per second.
Improvements to the design could raise that to as much as a metre per second.
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