The future has arrived – in the form of a spherical flying machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVILRAM_pvY It’s interesting to note that, while the Japanese Ministry of Defense developed the machine in 2011, it was on October 4, 1927 that Nikola Tesla received patent # 1,655,114 for hisย “Apparatus for aerial transportation.” As you can see from the photo…