London, Oct 1 (ANI): A graduate student at Princeton University, who got inspired from the work of an Indian-origin scientist, has created a flying carpet. The miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at the University, the BBC reported.The 10cm sheet of smart transparency is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath.The prototype, described in Applied Physics Letters, moves at speeds of about a centimeter per second, but it is believed that further
improvements to the
design could raise that to as much as a metre per second. Noah Jafferis, the device's creator, revealed that he was inspired by a mathematical
paper authored by Harvard University's Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan.Mahadevan, who wrote the 2007 paper in Physical Review Letters that inspired the whole project, expressed a mixture of surprise and delight at the Princeton team's success.
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