Yahoo news has this interesting article on http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainsciencelevitation
Here’s the bottomline:
”At the moment, in practice it is only going to be possible for micro-objects with the current technology, since this quantum force is small and acts only at short ranges.”
“For now, human levitation remains the subject of cartoons, fairytales and tales of the paranormal.”
Their research was to be published in the New Journal of Physics.