[Cyber Liberty]

We recently gave you a list of 25 trends that would be making people billions. Most of the phenomena will end up benefiting everyone.

But if you fancied yourself as someone who could be turned into a billionaire, you were arguably cheating — these were things everyone has already figured out.

Thank goodness we have Business Insider. Otherwise, nobody would know what to do.

[TexasRepublic]

The idea of obtaining useful wireless power is a pipe dream. It has long been demonstrated possible to extract a few milliwatts of power from a nearby radio tower by using resonant radio circuits. Extracting useful amounts of power to light a house or power a car is impossible even from a short distance away. Suppose there was a practical device for doing so, the transmission radiant energy is still limited by the Inverse-Square Law, which states that a specified physical quantity or intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that physical quantity. In other words, an object twice as far away, receives only one-quarter the energy. Double the distance several times over, and you will see the radiant intensity falls off so rapidly as to be practically useless.

[P.O.E.]

Invent a balloon app that can be rubbed on one’s head to generate static electricity.

[Theophilus]

Perpetual motion machine, cold fusion, time machine, spontaneous generation, artificial intelligence, transporter, warp drive, alchemy, fountain of youth, wishing ring.

Absurd.

[smaug6]

Value of #10 underestimated by a googleplex of orders of magnitude.