Among Toyota’s announcements for the 39th Tokyo Motor Show is the concept “vehicle” called the i-Swing. This seems to be Toyota’s own personal take on the Segway. Interesting photo.

Researchers at MIT have announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet know to science - “governmentium.” It has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons and 111 assistant deputy neutrons for an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons that are further surrounded by vast quantities […]

Australian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered more remains of hobbit-sized humans which belong to a previously unknown species that lived at the end of the last Ice Age.

The United States has embarked on a massive effort to create a secure digital driver’s license system by early 2008 but some experts warn that the plan may be hugely expensive and lead to chaos.

Bad news for terrorists and drug traffickers: The hunt for narcotics, explosives and biohazards is about to get faster and easier thanks to new research from Purdue University.

“This is a message that spells out, ‘I am a spammer,’” says Eran Reshef, his voice echoing in the receiver from half a world away. Reshef is the CEO of Blue Security, a startup he founded in Herzliya Pituach, Israel, and we’re examining an email typical of a dozen I receive daily. The subject line […]

Drive through even the sunniest parts of the nation today, and you probably won’t see more than a smattering of roofs decked out with solar panels.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to pop a water balloon in space? This site has some very cool videos taken in the low-gravity environment produced aboard a NASA Glenn DC-9 aircraft.

Here is a very nice assortment of graphical images that will play games with your mind. They all look like they are moving and they are all just sitting there. Cool stuff.

The most expensive cities in the world are listed here. The top five are Tokyo, Osaka, London, Moscow, and Seoul. The top US city is New York City at number 13.

Drew Crouch:
In Episode II we argued that participative mechanisms are central to Intellagon because they can provide better innovation targets, minimize the influence of special interests, motivate widely, and engender broad support.

Japan completed the first successful test of a model of its planned successor to Concorde — an aircraft that can fly at twice the speed of sound.

Tea makers ‘PG Tips’ have joined forces with mobile phone company ‘Orange’ to create a kettle, called “the ReadyWhenUR”, which lets you brew via a text message.

In the 1990s, tech gurus like George “Infinite Bandwidth” Gilder rhapsodized that with the roll-out of fiber-optic cable, the price of making phone calls and sending e-mails would fall inexorably to zero. The investment thesis: Go long the New Economy start-ups like Global Crossing and short the incumbent Baby Bells.

On Friday, at 24,000 feet over the Irish Sea and travelling at 300 knots, the 20-year-old Boeing aeroplane experiences what many experts in radio interference might regard as a “nightmare scenario”.