Steorn has released their long promised quarter one update. It consists of a slickly produced 5 minute video of CEO Sean McCarthy in a verdant park setting answering several frequently asked questions. Here’s what’s new: – During the first week of July, Steorn’s device will be given a public demonstration at a location in London. […]

Sean posted this video today. It’s “Hats by Hobbit” day at Steorn – Hobbit being the pseudonym of one of their employees, apparently a prolific knitter. (Update: according to Sean the video was made as a thank-you to “Hobbit’s” wife, who knitted all the hats.) Of course this could be just part of an elaborate […]

Sean made a rare (these days) appearance on the Steorn forum to announce that their upcoming release of information, including the status of the jury and some of Orbo’s technical specs, is now set for Friday, April 13th. Though 2007 was one-quarter behind us by the end of March, Sean’s post indicates that he considers […]

The end of the first quarter is fast approaching, when Steorn has stated they will release an update on the progress of the “jury” of scientists evaluating their technology, as well as some basic specs (unfortunately, no blueprints yet – not until the jury validation process is complete, says Sean). Just a few developments this […]

Let’s not take Steorn’s impossible claims at face value. What’s really going on? There are at least four main possibilities: 1) Marketing promotion. When Steorn first went public with their claim last August, many people figured it was just part of The Lost Experience, an online alternate reality game that ABC was running at the […]

Here’s what’s coming up in Steorn’s future, from what they’re telling us: Yesterday, Steorn opened up their “developer’s club” (called the SPDC) to an initial group of a couple hundred people, selected mostly from the membership of Steorn’s online forum. The SPDC will eventually be where any engineer who wants to develop a product using […]

Here’s how it all unfolded. According to CEO Sean McCarthy, in 2003 Steorn’s engineers were hard at work developing a security camera system to keep watch over ATM machines. They were playing with the idea of using a small wind generator to power the camera system so it wouldn’t need to be hooked up to […]

Steorn is a small company based in a two level office hidden in a nondescript corporate park in Dublin, Ireland. They’re inventors of things useful if somewhat dreary, like security devices to prevent ATM fraud. But one way or another, that’s about to change. Their latest product is either a brash scam, an onerous mistake, […]