{"id":141030,"date":"2022-06-24T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-are-getting-better-and-better-at-levitating-objects-with-sound-waves"},"modified":"2022-06-24T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T05:02:17","slug":"scientists-are-getting-better-and-better-at-levitating-objects-with-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-are-getting-better-and-better-at-levitating-objects-with-sound-waves","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Getting Better and Better at Levitating Objects With Sound Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yrZSp2n-KFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have come up with a new and improved way to levitate objects <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-06-levitated-falling-due.html\" class=\"\">using sound waves alone<\/a>, an impressive feat of mixed-reality technology that could pave the way for some seriously futuristic hologram-like displays.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yrZSp2n-KFw\" class=\"\">new video<\/a>, the researchers were able to levitate individual polystyrene beads and water particles inside a special enclosure, making them move in three dimensions by adjusting the output of hundreds of small speakers, set up in a grid.<\/p>\n<p>In one demonstration, they were even able to float a tiny piece of fabric in midair, on which they projected a movie of a leaping rabbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have come up with a new and improved way to levitate objects using sound waves alone, an impressive feat of mixed-reality technology that could pave the way for some seriously futuristic hologram-like displays. As seen in a new video, the researchers were able to levitate individual polystyrene beads and water particles inside a special [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}