Make magazine goes ‘fringe science’ this issue and it includes a great piece about one boy’s adventures with the bizarre Hieronymous Machine. This first appeared in the pages of Astounding Science Fiction after enamouring its editor John W Campbell Jr. William Burroughs also became a fan, calling it the wishing machine.
Here’s a PDF of the article
Plans are included in the PDF but here’s a set online. The great beauty of this arcane device, however, is that you don’t even need to build the thing for it to work. Just print out the plans and it will sync up with your psionic abilities and do your bidding.
Now that’s what I call science! Just don’t tell Ben Goldacre…