This new bra may look a bit weird but it’s chest great for keeping cool.

The harps are three separate but unified light instruments. At burning man, each day the harps will be reconfigured to form various larger forms… first a walking path, second a separation as 3 unique entities, and last a combined spiral maze. Each night, as the playa cranium is lit the harps will slowly begin to […]

The Homeland Security Blanket is a set of 5 networked blankets. Each blanket is wirelessly networked to the internet and responds to the Homeland Security Acts fluxuating, color coded “Threat Levels”. Complete with photos.

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found a way to detect mad cow disease in blood.

Brad Feld:
Earlier this summer I was invited up to Fairbanks, Alaska by the Fairbanks Economic Development Corporation to talk about entrepreneurship. I decided to swing up to Fairbanks at the end of our Alaska trip to check things out.

Spiderman does it, so does James Bond. Now a gadget has been developed to allow US marines to zip up the sides of buildings or ships with virtually no effort.

Scientists in the United States have discovered a gene that can keep mice alive for 30% longer than normal.

As Corporate America wades into the burgeoning world of Internet Web logs, companies are being warned they could face legal hazards when employees are let loose in the free-wheeling blogosphere.

South Korea stole headlines after creating the world’s first cloned dog, but the tiny city-state of Singapore is quietly preparing to take the fruits of its stem cell research straight to the market.

As the earth turns, the center of the earth turns even faster.

They’re the grizzled, unglamorous veterans of the computing world, middle-aged men and women who don’t create best-selling computer games or dazzling special effects for the movies. All they do is quietly run the most important computer systems in the world.

A recent marketing video from battery maker Valence Technologies makes its point with all the subtlety of a Jerry Bruckheimer film: Unlike the competition’s, its batteries don’t blow up.

The wheels on the bus aren’t the only things going round and round. The dials on the fuel pump are spinning, too, for school districts that face soaring costs just as 25 million children get back on the bus for a new school year.

A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part of his GCSE science project.
Great photo.

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
“In English,” he said, “A double negative forms a positive.
In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a
double positive can form a negative.”

Adam Penenberg:
If a new startup called Amp’d has its way, your whole world is about to be unwired and controlled through a single supergadget.

Africa is now the world’s fastest-growing cellphone market.

A HIGH-powered, lightweight laser weapon that can be fitted to fighter aircraft to destroy missiles tens of kilometres away has been designed by DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency in the US.

Small robotic spy-planes have been developed that use shape-shifting wings to switch from being stable gliders to ultra-manoeuvrable fliers.

Judy Shackelford, who has been in the toy industry for more than 40 years, has seen a lot of dolls. But none, she says, like her latest creation, a marvel of digital technologies, including speech-recognition and memory chips, radio frequency tags and scanners, and facial robotics. She and her team have christened it Amazing Amanda.

After several months of feverish speculation about a mysterious new service under development, Google unveiled its latest tool Wednesday: Google Talk, a text-chat and voice-communication program that looks nice, but has no obvious advantage over competitors.

Billionaire television producer John de Mol, behind the pioneer show Big Brother, will test the limits of reality TV with a program in which a woman searches for a potential sperm donor to conceive a child.

The staff at a local United Way office realized that it had
never received a donation from the town’s most successful
lawyer.

Thomas Sowell:
With oil prices passing the record-breaking $60 a barrel level and heading even higher, the word “crisis” is now being used and all sorts of political “solutions” are being proposed. Is there really a crisis?

Sometimes, just thinking you are receiving treatment is enough to make you feel better, a phenomenon known as the placebo effect. Scientists have long wondered what causes this outcome, the magnitude of which is not the same for all people.