great, but where's my flying car and hoverboard you promised?

straight from the horse's mouth:

"Researchers for at least two decades have used acoustic levitation to suspend light materials without a container. Wenjun Xie, a materials physicist at Northwestern Polytechnical University in China, has previously used ultrasound fields to levitate globs of iridium and mercury, very heavy materials. Now the scientist has performed the feat with live animals. From the story: 'Xie and his colleagues employed an ultrasound emitter and reflector that generated a sound pressure field between them. The emitter produced roughly 20-millimeter-wavelength sounds, meaning it could in theory levitate objects half that wavelength or less.' Apparently the ants, spiders and ladybugs endured the trick just fine, but the fish didn't do so well due to lack of water."

YALS (yet another lovely sandwich)

when i came back from my trip, i was shocked to see that the baker's oven had transmogrified into a greggs. panic set in as i realised i may never see one of my beloved mango chicken sandwiches again.

all is not lost, today i saw a lone 'roll' in their cabinet - some sort of christmas themed filling: turkey, stuffing and cranberry. that final touch is a stroke of genius -- cutting through what might otherwise be quite a stodgy mixture. i love a good stuffing, and you can't go wrong with some moist turkey. i snapped it up in a hurry, and wasn't disappointed... absolutely delicious. my only worry? this is a seasonal sandwich, and not likely to be around in a few months. get it while you can.

late edit -- joy of joys, there is also crispy bacon in here. does life get any better than this?