For decades, the question of how to keep a Slinky in perpetual motion has befuddled scientists and toy owners alike. Now, one man may have the answer to ensure the Slinky fun never stops. Matthias ...

Perpetual motion and notions of ‘free energy’ devices are some of those pseudo-science topics that seem to perpetually hang around, no matter how many times it is explained how this would literally ...

On November 12th, 1717, clockmaker and mechanic Johann Bessler placed a 12-foot diameter, strange-looking wheel into a room. With a tender push, he started the contraption rotating, then confidently ...

A schoolboy showed off an impressive eco-friendly perpetual motion toy he built himself. The student used plastic bottles, sticks, thread, and marble to create the continuously moving mechanism in ...

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 ...

Woodworker Matthias Wandel built an impressive slinky escalator machine that helps keep the toy in motion for extended periods of time. Matthias Wandel/YouTube For decades, the question of how to keep ...