Wheels have been around since at least 3500 ... glorified dodgeballs could ever be considered tires. The answer is magnetic levitation (MagLev) technology. Eagle-360 tires can rotate and brake ...

As well as looking cool, using magnetic levitation instead of wheels mean there is no physical contact between the vehicle and the ‘guideway’ or rail, so there is no wear and tear. Because the ...

Jamie] decided to build a generator, and Lego is his medium of choice. Thus was created a fancy levitating generator that ...

Most of our readers are already going to be familiar with how electromagnets work — a current is induced (usually with a coil) in a ferrous core, and that current aligns the magnetic domains ...

The magnetic-levitation (or maglev ... This means the maglev train is much lighter, as it doesn't need wheels and brakes and other heavy bits of engineered steel to keep it safely on a railway.

Before magnetic levitation occurs, the train runs on wheels, giving off a unique sound. An interior monitor display showed the speed and magnetic levitation occurred when the train hit 150 kph or so.