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Well, not "free energy" in the woo terms we're used to. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671670/a-tiny-box-that-charges-aa-batteries-from-electromagnetic-fields#2 Seems he created a charger that picks up static electricity from surrounding EM fields to charge a small battery. If you watch the...

OK, this is going to sound trivial and probably a little dumb, but every time I get out of my car, and close my door, I get shocked. I try different things to avoid getting shocked, but besides closing the door with my foot, I haven't found a good and easy solution. It freaking hurts and now...

In the last few days my computer has started playing crackly static in the background whenever music is played. I've determined it is not the speakers, as the same thing occurs when plugging known good headphones into the line out jack. It occurs regardless of whether I'm playing a cd, streaming...

A few hours ago I was starring at a TV screen of static and the static went into many spirals and a weird feeling came over me. I tried to get it to happen again but couldn't. I did get weird sights of looking like I was flying through those "hyperspace jump" tunnle warpy things except it was...

My Playstation 2 controller zapped me good the other day. At least I have a good way of getting out my stress over this--I pet my cats and then zap them on the nose.

I was listening to AM radio this morning in my house. I had it plugged in an outlet near the stove. The radio was staticy. The static sounded like the strobe effect. It sounded like how when you see a fan blade turn in the light, how you sometimes see the individual blades turning...

In Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged, the hero is a scientist who invents an electric motor that gets its power by tapping into the static electricity in the atmosphere, providing a source of virtually limitless energy. My initial reaction was to dismiss it as being a perpetual motion fantasy, just...