You thought we forgot about your favorite Hackaday comment game, didn’t you? Well, not only is ‘Real or Fake?’ back with a new installment, but this time it ...

Inventors have long tried to cheat the laws of physics. From quirky toys to impossible contraptions, these are the strangest perpetual motion machines ever imagined Unprecedented and unconstitutional: ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Time crystals oscillate in ...

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What if a single idea, once dismissed as impossible, could spark innovations that save millions of dollars and transform energy efficiency? The concept of a “free energy generator” has long been the ...

Perpetual motion devices are either a gag, a scam, or as in the case of this particular toy that [Big Clive] bought on AliExpress, a rather fascinating demonstration of a contact-free inductive sensor ...

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

At the turn of the 20th century, the quest for a perpetual motion machine took hold of public imagination. A number of Hoosiers were among those captivated by the idea of creating a perpetual motion ...

Financial machines of perpetual motion don’t work but bitcoin treasury companies are certainly trying. Why would this fad be any different? The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust ...

Junji Ito is back with another volume of The Liminal Zone! Newly translated into English, this collection offers four new stories from the horror manga master. One revisits The Strange Hikizuri ...