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Spend The Next 22 Minutes Mesmerized By This Near-Perpetual Motion Double Pendulum

2:40AM December 21, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

YouTuber yamamo2 hasn’t created the world’s first perpetual motion machine with this high-performance double pendulum. But he did create a hypnotic way to lose 22 minutes of your life staring at your screen. More »


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Jury Rules On Steorn’s Free Energy Machine: Guilty (Of Not Working)

12:40AM June 24, 2009 | John Herrman

Remember how Steorn, the company who built, hyped, then failed to demonstrate the Orb free energy machine, convened a hand-selected “jury” to evaluate the technology? No? Well, anyway, they’ve disbanded, unanimously unconvinced. More »


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Perepiteia Perpetual-Motion Machine May Actually Do…Something

1:45AM February 8, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

The difference between Thane Heins’ perpetual-motion invention Perepiteia and last year’s flop Steorn Orbo is that when it was demonstrated last week—to scientists at MIT, no less—it appeared to really work. The result of more than 20 years tinkering, Perepiteia defies conventional thought, apparently using magnets to accelerate a turning electrical motor, as the video shows.

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