Hold on to your wand, Harry Potter: Science has outdone even your best "Leviosa!" levitation spell. Researchers report that they have levitated objects with sound waves, and moved those objects around ...

Levitating objects can spin, glide and collide together — no magnets or magic tricks required. Using steady streams of sound waves, engineers maneuvered hovering toothpicks, coffee granules and water ...

We've seen levitating pens, levitating lamps, levitating loungers and even levitating fish — now there's a Bluetooth speaker to add to the mix. OM Audio, maker of such respectable audio accessories as ...

While DIY acoustic levitation kits can be found online, the technique has important applications for research and industry including manipulating sensitive material such as biological cells. New ...

TBS Radio 'Session' broadcastScreenless Media Lab. aims to rethink audio as a communication medium. This time, we will ...

Levitation is often thought of as the realm of magicians or The Jetsons, but it is technically possible. That said, the tech seems to be moving pretty slowly. Now, researchers at the University of ...

(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers with the University of Tokyo in Japan has expanded the science of sound wave levitation by adding more speakers and controlling the focal point of the waves that are ...

Acoustic levitation conjures images of Star Trek­-style tractor beams and ultrasonic hover boards, but in reality floating objects on a cushion of sound occurs on far smaller scales. That’s in part ...

OM Audio today announced OM/ONE, which is the world’s first levitating Bluetooth speaker offering a gravity-defying listening experience. The company says the desktop speaker has exceptional sound ...

People have been able to levitate small objects using sound for years. But applications for the technique are severely limited because scientists hadn’t figured out how to control and manipulate the ...