Introduction Magnetic levitation or maglev is based on the repulsion of the magnetic field from the dia-magnetic and found its application in various areas such as levitating trains [1], electromagnetic guns [2], medicine, and many others [3]. The superconductors exhibit an example of a perfect diamagnet with 0=μ due to the Meissner effect, and are currently used as building blocks in maglev technology [4].

The ubiquitous problem with the application of the superconductors, however, is the require-ment for low temperatures. While there are no natural materials, exhibiting strong diamagnetic response at room temperature, it has been recently shown that certain metamaterials can be character-ized by effective magnetic permeability eff 0ªμ in a con-siderably wide frequency range [5, 6], and the effect of the magnetic levitation of macroscopic objects over the surface of such metamaterials has been predicted [9]. Generally, the study of electromagnetic forces both at macro- and micro level has become a rapidly growing research area in recent years [7, 8] Metamaterials also allow the realization of the electric counterpart of the super diamagnets, so-called Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) metamaterials, the structures which, analogously to the superconductor, repel the electric field. And it has been shown recently, that an electric dipole can levitate over a surface of such a metamaterial