Project Home 2010 Video Shows Levitating Magnet-Propelled Vehicle

A project featuring two Australian 12-year-old inventors beginning in 1999 posted a video Wednesday of what is labeled as a magnet-powered vehicle (RC toy size) buzzing through the snow, mud and a creek. Even more astonishing is that it is also shown apparently levitating.

It shows a miniature, 4-wheeled vehicle about 14 inched long and 6 inches wide, with tires of around 4.5 inches in diameter. The video shows the vehicle speeding along on a snowy path, with the caption: "Magnetic-Powered Project Home 2010 Vehicle." A laptop computer is shown, which is apparently controlling the vehicle remotely.

Next is a scene in which the vehicle appears to be floating stationary in the air, unperturbed (compared, say, to a small balloon, which would be jostled by the slightest breeze). It's so unusual, it doesn't look real. The first reaction was to think there must be some kind of illusion or video doctoring going on. It appears to be suspended about 1.5 feet in the air. A guy walks up to the device and waves his hand under and around it, though not from every approach. Then he presses his hand down on it, and though it moves a little, it actually appears to be resisting his push with quite a bit of force, as if it might sustain at least a 10 to 25-lb additional force against it. When he pushes it from the side, it moves about an inch but then seems to spring back to its prior position. The force required to offset it horizontally didn't seem to be nearly as much as its ability to resist a vertical change in elevation.

The captions say: "guidance computers control vehicle 'drifting' in lev mode." Then "Lev height controlled by EMF focal positioning", and finally: "vehicle 'bobbing' over object is stable."

I suggested that they shoot another video and show the vehicle lifting off the ground, then returning to the ground. They should also show that there are no connections or supports from any direction. I wonder if it is possible for the vehicle to move while in the air -- if they are able to control its position.

I'm also curious about their magnetic propulsion which is allegedly how the thing is buzzing along the ground.

They apparently envision this being able to withstand rugged use, showing it driving through mud; and at the end of the video the vehicle goes plowing into a stream.

If this is a real technology, I hope they will not allow the military to gobble it up for war-making purposes alone. This should be used for civilian use, to bring us the future world of the Jetsons that we anticipated as kids.

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Screen Grabs from the Video

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