Anti-gravity?

So what if I'm a huge nerd who likes speculative scientific findings. This report from NewScientist last November discusses findings from some European scientists funded by the European Space Agency that spinning superconductors twist space-time in a manner 17x more powerfully than predicted by Einstein. So what you ask? Here's the money paragraph from NewScientist (i.e. the only paragraph I truly understood):

The results could be out in a year or so. If they are positive, it puts the technology of science fiction on the horizon. Levitating cars, zero-g playgrounds, tractor beams to pull objects towards you, glassless windows that use repulsive fields to prevent things passing through. Let your imagination run riot: a gravitomagnetic device that works by changing the acceleration and orientation of a superconductor would be the basis for a general-purpose force field.

So far, there's nothing I could find that confirms the work done by these Europeans, but if you want to read some crazy conspiracy theories and reports of a gravitomagnetic device that "punches through brick walls" you can go here.

Despite all the sci-fi fanboy fantasy, there is some real science behind this, as demonstrated by Gravity Probe B, now orbiting the earth. Early results show that Einstein's predicted gravitomagnetic effect exists. The question, can it be effectively amplified by superconductors, and, furthermore, when are they going to put spinning superconductors in my sneakers?

UPDATE: In thinking about this, I remembered this story from the Chicago Tribune about the airline workers who claimed to have seen a UFO that left an "eerie hole in overcast skies." I'm no physicist, but that hole would be consistent with a directed gravitational force that acts on anything with mass, like water vapor. Spooooky.