I briefly joined an industry R&D team that was producing smoke-and-mirror demos. The ideas were good, but nothing really worked. One day I noticed all of the t

I briefly joined an industry R&D team that was producing smoke-and-mirror demos. The ideas were good, but nothing really worked. One day I noticed all of the team’s demos had been done already by an MIT professor. I guess that’s where they’d got the inspiration. I figured the professor’s demos were at least real. Now I’m not so sure. As far as I know, none of the work has made it out of the professor’s lab. Maybe it will, but this whole incident has aroused suspicion.