For the last eight years, the L.A. Auto Show has sponsored a design competition that asks manufacturers and designers to create cars to wow twelve design studio executives. For this year’s design challenge, entrants were asked to create outlandish movie cars of the future, submitting a complete concept design along with a character and plot line. Check out all the pics in our gallery to see the first renderings of this year’s design competition entries, plus get the scoop on which automakers are already on track for a year’s worth of water cooler bragging.

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Amazing Quantum Levitation Technology Could Open the Door to Floating Vehicles!

Levitation isn’t just for Houdini anymore. A team of researchers at Tel-Aviv University has discovered a way to make objects float in mid-air using a process called quantum levitation, and they think the tech could even lead to floating alternatives to traditional gas powered vehicles. Their demonstration, which involves using a single sapphire wafer (yes sapphire as in Princess Kate’s ring) coated with a thin later of a material called yttrium barium copper oxide recently wowed the crowds at the recent Association of Science-Technoloy Centers (ASTC) Annual Conference. The liquid nitrogen used to freeze the disc even gives off a cool mist that makes the experiment look all the more exciting.

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