Here's an interesting thing - long after the idea of a "perpetual motion machine" was generally accepted to be an impossible dream, it turns out that not only is someone still chasing it, but they're claiming to have made one, too.

Is anyone else terrified by the idea of wireless electricity?

The news that scientists at MIT are successfully pioneering "witricity" scares me to death for some reason - I just don't like the idea of it. Using resonance techniques (and a two foot receiving coil) the system has been proven to power gadgets wirelessly over a distance of up to 7 feet, paving the way for a battery-free utopia where all our gadgets are kept topped up wireless networks at home and away - but something about the idea of this kind of energy resonating about the place feels me with suspicion...