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Do you remember those levitating lamps that were all the rage some years ago? Floating light bulbs, globes, you name it. After the initial craze of expensive desk toys, a wave of cheap kits became ...

To be able to levitate an object is a great futuristic discovery to be made by man. It is even more exciting that it has already been applied and made possible at present. There is actually an ...

Here's a gadget that I just know will make Gadget Daddy's Best Gadgets and Computer Items of 2020. Since I'm the one that makes that call, I'm certain of it. A few months ago, I saw an advertisement ...

In the basement of a University of Pennsylvania engineering building, Mohsen Azadi and his labmates huddled around a set of blinding LEDs set beneath an acrylic vacuum chamber. They stared at the ...

Every January, the American Space Agency awards Phase I grants in something it calls the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. It’s a recurrent effort to award the best ideas for the ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. I’m here to ...