Seth Godin:  One of the most important ideas in business writing is certainly Geoff Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. In it, he talks about the bell curve that indicates how any population will respond to a new technology.

Here they are, the 10 best gadget ideas of 2005:

Nissan creates a car where, when you’re bored at stoplights, you can flip on an X-box 360 and use your steering wheel and pedals to play racing games. What could possibly go wrong?

See where every plane flying over the United States is at this second.  This is very cool.

Pregnant women coached through their first delivery do not fare much better than those who just do what feels natural, according to a study released on Friday.

Each week the BBC Magazine picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week. Here’s an end of year almanac.

Research shows that U.S. women not only compete differently than men in the workplace, they also compete differently with each other.

We live in a technological age, for sure, but 2005 will go down as a particularly abundant year for scientific discoveries.

2005 saw the most computer security breaches ever, subjecting millions of Americans to potential identity fraud.

Here is MSNBC’s overview of 2005 in pictures.  View slide shows for both the Editor’s Choice and the Reader’s Choice, and then vote on the Image of the Year.  Some amazing photography work here.

A team of researchers from Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University are launching what is believed to be the world’s first scientific study to answer the often asked question of how clothing can affect the appearance of the female rear.

Thousands of seabirds are being killed each year after a massive rise in plastics pollution in the North Sea, according to a new report.

Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.

Consumers snapped up millions of high-definition TV sets this holiday season. Now if they can only figure out how to use the darn things. More than half of HDTV owners lack the knowledge or gear to actually watch digital high-definition on their new sets, recent surveys show.

Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, says it has discovered a huge new offshore oil field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.

Here are ten very weird science facts that you never knew about.

Workplace experts say Generation Y will need direction as the thundering herd enters the workplace.  The Chicago Sun-Times says the children of Baby Boomers have been heavily scheduled with activities for most of their lives and experts say they now need structure in a work world where it’s scarce.

A family in St. George, Vt., wants to turn 50 acres of undeveloped land into a natural burial ground for do-it-yourself funerals.

Pew Research:  Internet users share many common interests, but men are heavier consumers of news, stocks, sports and pornography while more women look for health and religious guidance.

China’s current building boom is doing more than sucking up the world’s supply of steel — it’s creating a stage for some of today’s boldest architecture and engineering. Take a tour of the 10 of the most intriguing examples.

Neurons continue to grow and change beyond the first years of development and well into adulthood, according to a new study.

As Americans grow heftier, automakers are making seats wider, adding more space to interiors and using bigger virtual mannequins to help design vehicles.

A survey, sponsored by the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Banks, found that 72 percent of seniors use direct deposit. In contrast, only 59 percent of Americans ages 45-64 — the bulk of the baby boomer generation — said they use it.

Jim Carroll:  I’ve got a number of keynotes coming up in the New Year focused on the agricultural sector, and have done quite a few in the past.  I’m preparing for a series of events at the end of February, and now is a good time as ever to put up a list of what […]

Those whiz kids at Darpa are at it again. This time they want to use technology to let soldiers carry up to 220 lb in backpacks over all types of terrain, terrain vehicles can’t get through, and for extended lengths of time. They believe the key is wearable robotic exoskeletons and have invested $50 million […]