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Palm-sized magnet reaches 42 tesla, approaching the strength of the world’s most powerful magnets while using a few thousand times less power and over 1,000 times smaller coil volumes (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well we already can do directional sound, perhaps we can find a way to do focused directional magnetic fields, and then lift things into space without using cables? Obviously, I know it's entirely different mechanisms. Even using this to make electric motors way more powerful or something could be an application.