A Flogo (

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordslighter-than-air A lifting gas or lighter-than-air gas is a gas that has a density lower than normal atmospheric gases and rises above them as a result. It is required for aerostats to create buoyancy, particularly in lighter-than-air aircraft, which include fre ...

soap bubbles formed into a specific shape. They are not

balloon A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, and air. For special tasks, balloons can be filled with smoke, liquid water, granular media (e.g. sand, flour or rice), or light so ...

s, as they have no envelope, but consist merely of a condensed grouping of soap bubbles filled with a mixture of

helium Helium (from el, ἥλιος, helios, lit=sun) is a chemical element with the symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas and the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. ...

and air. They are shaped by being molded through a die inserted in the top of the generating machine. It is possible to create

foam Foams are materials formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. A bath sponge and the head on a glass of beer are examples of foams. In most foams, the volume of gas is large, with thin films of liquid or solid separating the ...

balloons with a diameter of more than 1 meter. Identical foam balloons can be manufactured with the same machine in quick repetition. Flogos are most frequently for "Skyvertising" or

Aerial advertising Aerial advertising is a form of advertising that incorporates the use of flogos, manned aircraft, or drones to create, transport, or display, advertising media. The media can be ''static'', such as a banner, logo, lighted sign or sponsorship bran ...

purposes, since they can be manufactured easily in the form of

corporate A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and r ...

or team

logo A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it represents as in a wo ...

s. In principle,

wind Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few ho ...

conditions in the lower atmosphere can be easily monitored with flogos. Foam balloons are not stable long-term, but decay after some hours. Nevertheless, they can reach heights of several kilometers up.

References

* http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1584 * http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24162063#.Xs8bPDrYrIU

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