Real life bonsai trees that levitate in mid-air!

Thanks to a new startup, Japanese animator, Hayao Miyazaki’s real life bonsai-style trees just got a lot more otherworldly!

Air Bonsai is a new bonsai-style miniature plant that hovers and spins over a magnetic base. It’ll make you feel pretty Zen-like as you stare at this amazing plant that feels like it’s from outta space.

The Air Bonsai was launched by a team based in the Kyushu region of Japan, and the makers are quick to point out that – “the actual plants we will be sending to you is for example “matsu”, a pine tree common in the US.”

But as you can see in the video, here, that barely makes a difference as the effect is still stunning enough to keep you staring for ages.

If you’d rather plant a different kind of levitating plant, the makers have a kit suited for that purpose as well. So, in case you were wondering, despite the magical hovering, these plants are 100% real and will need regular watering and care – they’re not just props.

With its standard base measuring just 6cm in diametre, the circular moss ball base hovers around 2cm above the magnetic base.

So how much does this levitating bonsai set cost? The cheapest option costs 200 Dollars for the basic Air Bonsai set, which includes the “energy base”, AC adapter and the circular moss ball that supports the plant. Another version, which costs 30 Dollars more, uses a lava stone as the plant base.

While levitating objects is nothing new, marrying such a dynamic with an organic component is truly a stroke of genius.

Will it work as shown in the video? We can’t be certain, but those who supported the Kickstarter project will find out when the first Air Bonsai products begin shipping in August this year.

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