A Japanese guru claims to have invented a mobile phone ring tone that can help women’s breasts to grow bigger. I just added the link to hear the actual ringtone.

Lisa DiCarlo: Moore’s Law says that semiconductors and devices double in functionality every 18 months. But rechargeable batteries increase in capacity only five to 10 percent per year.

Researchers who found a link between country music and suicide, and a man who patented his combover hairstyle won IgNobel Awards for true but funny experiments on Thursday.

The Bigelow Aerospace project to privately develop inflatable Earth-orbit space modules is beginning to integrate diverse U.S. and European technologies into subscale and full-scale inflatable test modules and subsystems at the company’s heavily guarded facilities here.

The plaintive plea to the traffic cop is the same the world over: “Sorry officer, I didn’t know I was speeding.” But drivers may soon have to come up with a better excuse. A new electronic driver’s assistant will detect road signs and warn drivers not to ignore them.

In the generator, the sound waves from the engine drive a piston, which moves a coiled copper wire. As the wire moves through a magnetic field produced by a permanent magnet it produces electricity.

Retailer Neiman Marcus on Tuesday rolled out its annual parade of seasonal excess and eccentricity in its Christmas Book, which is chock full of luxury gifts that harken to the childhood joys of years past.

Lawrence Lessig: There’s a pesky flaw at the core of our democracy: How do we count those who can’t vote? Not those who don’t vote (they can take care of themselves by voting). But those people who can’t vote, because they’re either too young or not yet born. How, in other words, do we […]