They call functions on mechanical watches "complications" for a reason, but sometimes things get so complicated that it's time to start over. That's the reasoning that led MB&F and Irish watchmaker ...

Perhaps the most persistent nonsense in physics: the perpetual motion machine. Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the ...

Steorn is back, and it is still hawking its perpetual-motion machine, the Orbo. We spent several carefree days back in the summer of 2007 ridiculing the whole project, which purported to use spinning ...

Made in collaboration between MB&F and the Northern Irish watchmaker Stephen McDonnell, the Legacy Machine Perpetual stands apart from the pack thanks to the ease with which it combines outstanding ...

This guy claims that this invention is a perpetual motion machine, the Philosopher’s Stone of physics, the Holy Grail of power. Play the video and check it out for yourself. The machine uses neodymium ...

Everyone loves perpetual motion machines. They are a representation of the highest level of creativity in finding loopholes in the laws of physics. Let's take a look at this one. What is a perpetual ...

Last week, a "self sustaining electrical turbine generator" was found on Kickstarter. Another name for the product is a perpetual motion machine. (We saw this story first on GigaOm.) Put simply, a ...

OK, so I have an uncle. He likes to tinker, fix stuff, invent things. And like the rest of my extended family, he knows that conventional wisdom is nothing but a trick from the man designed to turn us ...