I didn't get an invite to the grand Steorn unveiling of its Orbo technology, but at the moment the doors were opened to the public in Dublin today, a ZDNet UK reader popped in and started relaying ...

Welcome back my friends to the magnetic machine story that never ends, courtesy of Dublin-based perpetual motion mongers Steorn. One of my two favourite miraculous organisations — in the company, ...

Mini USA looks set to take a world lead in fuel efficiency with its April 1st announcement. It's no April Fools joke, but they gave information on its new magnetic propulsion system that will extend ...

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 ...

Remember that zany Irish company Steorn, who claimed to have built a working perpetual motion machine that could produce clean, free energy out of a few magnets and some plastic discs? Well, they're ...

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 ...

Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, hasn't had the best of weeks. His perpetual motion machine mysteriously failed at a recent unveiling, and a tsunami of international ridicule washed over him and his ...

Despite decades of feverish and fraudulent research, the perpetual motion machine remains elusive. By perpetual motion, gadgeteers really mean perpetual work. An object in motion, as Galileo and ...

So here is the thing with "perpetual motion"... Any physicist will believe you can make a device arbitrarily close to lossless... that is, you put X energy in, and the object stays spinning (or ...

Perpetual motion machines, George Hamilton and the Furutech DeMag CD and DVD demagnetizer all share one thing in common: they perform no useful function. The $2,900 DeMag claims to get rid of magnetic ...

This is the first time I post in this part of the forum, also english is not my primary language, so please bear with me. A Friend of mine (who has a history of falling for all kinds of scams) has ...