Singapore, known for micro-managing its wealthy population of 4.2 million people, frequently rolls out extensive national campaigns aimed at molding social behavior.

Cory Doctorow: I kinda stopped caring about mobile phone design and features a year or so ago. Don’t know why, but my interest just crashed. But Nokia’s forthcoming 7280 has piqued it again — it’s virtually the first genuinely novel phone design ideas I’ve seen in a long time.

A tiny heart pump inserted without surgery is being hailed as a revolutionary device for treating heart disease.

The war on Colombia’s drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature – or a genetically modified secret weapon?

Scientists in Japan have made the first device that can convert solar energy into electricity and then store the resulting electric charge.

Your ears are on your head, so why should your music system hang on your waist?

As biologists learn more about how our bodies work, the gap between man and machine becomes continually smaller. The tiny chip called Braingate is implanted on the motor cortex of the brain. Braingate transmits signals from the brain to a computer, allowing you to play games or surf the Internet simply by thinking it.

Mike Cote: Spray-on clothing. Instant sleep. Virtual ceilings.
Someone is staying up late to create the inventions of the future. Some will succeed and reshape society. Some will capture nothing more than their imaginations.