If you spend a lot of time in gyms and fitness clubs, you've maybe noticed a strange Transformer-like machine over by the cardio equipment, a kind of cross between a treadmill and an elliptical. Maybe ...

It’s not every year, or decade even, that a brand new type of exercise equipment hits the market. The 1960s saw the rise of the treadmill, the 1980s had stair steppers, and elliptical trainers emerged ...

Whether designers are improving a motion-centric machine or building a new one, it is essential they begin with motion control in mind. Then they can develop the design around the best way to get ...

More of the automation world is getting on board with a new generation of motion-control and servo-drive technology: “cabinet-free,” or distributed, control and drive systems. In today’s automated ...

The feather you see above looks like it’s moving in slow motion. It’s not. In fact, it’s moving rather quickly. But thanks to some clever lighting, and the limits of human perception, it seems to sway ...

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 ...

Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get that because history is replete ...

When I first talked with Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring in 2012, they promised their creepy, psychedelic, stop-motion game, The Dream Machine, was going to be "better than sex with Jesus." They had ...