Posted by hipstomp | 5 Jan 2012 | Comments (0)
More mag-lev madness, or quantum levitation as it’s being called here: The miniature track and vehicles constructed for the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s quant-lev demonstration wins cool points for being modeled after the PlayStation game Wipe’out:
“Maybe in [the] near future we could assist [with] a real Wipe’out race,” writes the JAIST team. Presumably they mean without the power-ups and missiles, though I’d pay good money to see that.
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