Real Life Flying Carpet Out Of Plastic

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBRVNc8u8vT-ChpDvIcTyVpekElZ5Rk1NBuHy1OvbZIJLYgh9Nx23sMy571HSKdqM3c7MdY0sn3HmAWt6g-jIXzTkNM0f1X5TcDK8Z6dCGjbVXmbj7vg3dBfMmXDoWyDTUraWNBkhAlo/s1600/Scientists+Develop+Real+Flying+Carpet+Out+Of+Plastic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBRVNc8u8vT-ChpDvIcTyVpekElZ5Rk1NBuHy1OvbZIJLYgh9Nx23sMy571HSKdqM3c7MdY0sn3HmAWt6g-jIXzTkNM0f1X5TcDK8Z6dCGjbVXmbj7vg3dBfMmXDoWyDTUraWNBkhAlo/s640/Scientists+Develop+Real+Flying+Carpet+Out+Of+Plastic.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Scientists at Princeton University have successfully developed a thin plastic sheet that can swim through the air the way skates and rays swim through the ocean.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 10cm sheet of smart transparency is driven by ripple power, waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prototype moves at speeds of about a centimeter per second. Improvements to the design could raise that to as much as a meter per second.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With the current status of the project, it would take a carpet at least 50-meters wide to support a human. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n0tGydpd_eo?rel=0" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Source From <a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2011/09/-a-whole-new-wooooooooorld-scientists-de.php">Geekologie</a></div>

Real Life Flying Carpet Out Of Plastic

Scientists at Princeton University have successfully developed a thin plastic sheet that can swim through the air the way skates and rays sw...

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