Desktop Zero-Point Infinite Power Generator

[lamare]

ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses

Tired of shelling out the to The ManTM for your electrical power needs? Are personal windmill power stations just too passe? Think fuel-cells are great, but you hate having to pay for the hydrogen? What's a self-respecting independent consumer to do? Thanks to the fine folks at ThinkGeek ColdFusionWorks Labs, your dreams have become reality with the Desktop Zero-Point Power Generator!

But how does it work? At the quantum level, all matter in the universe vibrates constantly - even at absolute zero! The Desktop Zero-Point Power Generator takes advantage of this seething abundant energy by converting naturally occurring EM energy into 120 Volts / 200 Amps of electricity.

The generator is 8 inches square, and weighs just under 3 pounds. When activated, the generator will generate power indefinitely! The unit emits a very quiet whirr, and less than 600 rem of residual ionizing radiation! ThinkGeek recommends you drain the unit's non-volitile waste chamber once every three months, and dispose of the tritium/deuterium slurry at a licensed disposal facility.

Real or hoax?

[lamare]

Apparantly a hoax

Net Hoaxes Snare Fools All Year

The infinite power supply does not exist. But for the past two years, that fact hasn't stopped people from trying to buy one.

In fact, ever since ThinkGeek, an online retailer of offbeat gadgets, put up the item on its website as an April Fools' Day prank in 2002, requests to purchase the item have continued to arrive at a slow but steady rate.

"We've had people e-mailing us from all over the world telling us they were very interested in it," said Scott Smith, a buyer for ThinkGeek, adding that no one who places an order actually gets charged for the $200 Desktop Zero-Point Infinite Power Generator. He said the site also receives queries on a regular basis, albeit in lower volumes, for other fake postings, including a USB George Foreman Grill and caffeinated meatloaf.

Sorry for posting before googling...

[Sephiroth]

That one might be fake, but I wonder if they do one with UK plug sockets?

I want one

[ewizard]

Look at the URL and the folder it's in www. thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml<--- SEE that looflirpa ? What's that spell backwards? AprilFool - So NO I'm sure this one isn't real.

[jibbguy]

I heard a bunch of government forum shills recently got fooled by the recent claims of a fake online firm for a "Painless Automatic Foot From Arse Remover" that stated:

"This wonderful new device can pry those size 13 boots from your heiny without any fuss or muss."

And: "No more embarrassment when trying to explain to your angry bosses why there is an implement of footware protruding from your buttocks!"

It then went on to say:

"We know what a hard life your fellows lead, pissing on everything good people are trying to do, then getting completely owned by others who make you look like you just fell off the short buss and landed in the forums with a dark stain in your pants... this new device is the perfect ending to a long day of utter failure at trolling!"

[elias]

Even the picture of it is a Photoshop/3D Studio type, just look at the power button!

Making joke for fun is good but if their intention is ridicule, it is quite disappointing. ZPE is real and how come they ridicule by using a fake device.