grahamkracker - Slashdot User

Comment How many times does the search return zero results (Score 1) 388

by grahamkracker on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:35AM (#25148117) Attached to: I google myself ...

Watch <i>WANTED</i>, In the film a character performs a search for himself only to find emptiness ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_(film)

Water Logic Gates Built at MIT 239

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 16, 2007 @12:54AM from the flood-gates-opened dept.

ndogg writes "This story is all wet. Paulo Blikstein at MIT has created a water computer. The one boolean logic gate he created functions as a half-adder (i.e. both XOR and AND). He then proceeded to create a four bit adder."

Comment Re: Not perpetual motion (Score 2, Informative) 397

by gwernol on Monday February 20, 2006 @09:13PM (#14764866) Attached to: Self Contained Power Source?

If I'm reading the text of their patent correctly, it's not for the motor, but for the magnet assembly used in the motor. Maybe I'm missing something, but even with that limitation the patent looks pretty weak. Doesn't it cover just about any use of permanent magnets in a variable configuration to modify a magnetic field?

Yeah, their pseudo-science is laid on thick, but it looks to me like a variant on the Lutec scam which is, funnily, always going to be ready "at the end of the year X" where X is whatever calendar year you are currently in. Check out their site. They even quote an anonymous but "notable" physicist, color me impressed:

http://www.lutec.com.au/

Anyway, this looks like another in a long line of "use permanent magnets to make a perpetual motion device" concepts.

Yup, no doubt.

Slashdot Top Deals