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Right off the side of Rt. 25A on Long Island, NY lay the remains of what was once Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower!

The Power Station/Laboratory still stands to this day. The site is currently part of an out of business photograhic development company.

Thankfully, the security guard was nice enough to let us on the premisses to take photographs of this legendary monument!

Mainly known for its microprocessors, but it’s another technology that was unveiled at this week’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) that has a lot of people talking: Wireless power.

To some, the idea may sound like pure science fiction, but it is very real. Various groups of scientists around the world have been working on it for years, but the problem has mainly been the efficiency, or rather the inefficiency with which power is transfered over the air. Most of it is lost before it can reach its destination. On Thursday however, Intel showed that it could transmit 60 watts of power over a few feet while maintaining 75 percent efficiency.

We are now only days away from our manuscript-delivery-deadline for the Damn Interesting book. Once that's behind us, we can return to our regularly scheduled writing. In the meantime, here's a re-run from 10 July 2007.

You are looking at an original copy of Time Magazines July 1931 tribute to Nikola Tesla's 75th Birthday. This is the complete magazine with no missing pages. I took quality pictures so you can see exactly what you are getting. These are becoming almost impossible to find. Good luck and enjoy it!