Even a slight decrease in calories may lead to longer lifespans.

A “bionic eye” may one day help blind people see again, according to US researchers who have successfully tested the system in rats.

For his next hotel enterprise, Robert Bigelow is looking beyond the bright lights of Las Vegas—beyond Earth’s atmosphere, in fact. He is actively engaged in an effort to build the planet’s first orbiting space hotel.

Drum|head is a cybernetic percussion instrument, a performance device, using a human head as the percussion instrument - the face responds appropriately and a sound is generated. The video is hilarious.

A US taxidermist has come up with a strange way to keep the memory of dead pets alive - cushions made from their fur.

Seth Godin: In the old days, you’d go down to the American Express office and talk to a real person. They would use eye contact and hand motions and could gauge your responses in order to make themselves understood.