The inventor of artificial testicles for dogs, Nigerian Internet scammers and a team that calculated the pressures created when penguins poop won Ig Nobel prizes for 2005 on Thursday.

You have to respect GM’s commitment to fuel cell vehicles despite the company’s sliding sales and the technical obstacles. GM says they are still on track to produce competitive fuel cell vehicles by 2010, which although I recently heard the same from fuel cell maker Ballard, would be very surprising if it happens.

In a decision hailed by free-speech advocates, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision requiring an internet service provider to disclose the identity of an anonymous blogger who targeted a local elected official.

The virtual world has never been more connected to the real one. Satellite imagery and geography markup language are all over the Web, and GPS receivers come built into cell phones and other everyday gadgets. All the overlords of Internet search - Google, MSN, Yahoo!, even Amazon’s A9.com - provide cartographic results embedded with information.

By night, Bob Coons is a jazz guitarist, playing at clubs in San Francisco. By day, he clocks in at an office, where he sits in front of a computer screen alongside other local musicians, listening to artists like Metallica and Barbra Streisand through a pair of bulky headphones and filling out a computerized scorecard […]

Being a futurist sure sounds like a fun job. Observe the world at large, amass predictions and inspire awe at one’s visionary talents.

The world’s first autonomously-controlled robotic fish have been unveiled at London Aquarium.
Great photo.

A blind woman has baffled scientists after proving on TV that she can distinguish between colors by touch.

Chris Anderson: Last week I wrote about Salesforce.com’s new AppExchange and the Long Tail of software. Now comes Ning, aiming to help create the Long Tail of social software, which only sounds the same.

The produce departments of the future may look like nothing on earth, and with good reason. Chinese scientists have been growing tomatoes the size of softballs, cucumbers as long as baseball bats and other outsize fruits and vegetables, using seeds that have been shot into space.

A drive-by-wire car still has the same old steering wheel and pedals, but they’re connected to nothing but a computer chip, which makes driving a bit like playing a videogame.