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Iranian 'Time Machine'
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417686,00.asp
Forget Psychics, Iranian 'Time Machine' Can Predict Future
Throw out the Magic 8 ball — an Iranian scientist's time machine can predict your future.
According to The Telegraph, 27-year-old Ali Razeghi's "Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" can see up to eight years into the future by analyzing only the user's touch.
Based on a set of complex algorithms, the misnamed "time machine" can "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy," Razeghi told The Telegraph.
A serial inventor, Razeghi is also the managing director of Iran's Centre for Strategic Inventions, where he recently registered his new machine, and 179 other projects before it. Ten years of work has resulted in a device that can easily fit into a laptop case, but doesn't actually move users through time.
"It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you," Razeghi said of his invention's title.
The machine can be put to use within Iran's government, The Telegraph said, helping to predict, for example, the possibility of military confrontations or fluctuations in currency and oil prices.
Razeghi criticized the Americans' efforts to build the same sort of prediction device "by spending millions of dollars on it where I have already achieved it by a fraction of the cost." In fact, the U.S. has already done so — Google and the CIA have invested in "temporal analytics engine" Recorded Future (see slideshow), which maps patterns and forecasts a future outcome based on everything from Twitter feeds to government documents.
There is no timeline yet for when Razeghi's machine could be available, or how much it will cost, though it's safe to say the average consumer likely won't be setting up the Aryayek Time Traveling Machine in their living room.
The biggest hold up in launching the prototype now, the scientist said, is because "the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight."
Perhaps Doc Brown has a solution.
