Why AI is taking on impossible challenges. How a perpetual motion machine can power an AI. Why we have to put an explicit explanation about an April 1st article so that the search engines don’t ding ...

Villard’s machine An architect named Villard de Honnecourt drew an impractical perpetual motion machine in the 13th century that was also an overbalanced wheel. His device, and other similar ...

We see our share of pitches for perpetual motion machines in the Hackaday tips line ... beneath its bell-jar enclosure as it does. The design is an extension of [lasersaber]’s “EZ-Spin ...