Australia Post has released a scratch and sniff stamp featuring a rose for Valentine’s Day cards and letters.

This is very cool!  If you have open rooftop space, you can get this cube to add an extra living unit.  Movable by helicopter.  Great photos.

When a worm is chopped in two, the missing part often re-grows. Researchers at several biotech companies are challenging the assumption that humans can’t perform a similar feat by developing drugs that encourage self-regeneration.

Chris Anderson:  Be careful what you wish for, all of you with the "Please, God, just one more bubble!" bumper stickers. It’s getting wild again in Silicon Valley. In recent months, the breathtaking ascent of Google has lit a fire under its competitors, which include practically everyone in the online world. The result is all [...]

Jeep is testing out a new "turn on a dime" rotational feature where the axils flex hydraulically under a unique fender design and wheels are controlled individually to enable unusual movements.  Great photo.

PC Magazine is running an interview with two of the research leaders in IBM’s speech recognition group, Dr. David Nahamoo, manager of Human Language Technologies, and Dr. Roberto Sicconi, manager of Multimodal Conversational Solutions.

Last May, Isabelle Dinoire had a wide, tilted nose, a prominent chin and thin lips. Today, the donated face of suicide Maryline Saint-Aubert has given her a straight and narrow nose, a neater chin and a fuller mouth.

After 12 years of development and with the help of NASA’s Embedded Web Technology software, the TMIO company is delivering its first smart ovens.

The coolest yet most vertigo-inducing pic you’ll see all day: A view of Earth from the Space Elevator.

What are the best jobs to pursue for the next five years? This year’s index of the top jobs on four categories: job growth, salary potential, education level, and room for innovation.

On Saturday an Impact Lab article received brief mention on www.fark.com.  As a result, thousands of readers were directed to an article which was highjacked by hackers and turned into a porn photo gallery. 
We have attempted to correct the problem and sincerely apologize for the problems this has created.

Man made star helps scientists adjust their vision.

Hoping to ease the nightmare of flying next to a crashing bore, a company in New York will match like-minded passengers to help make the time fly.

Experiments may soon confirm a computer simulation of hydrogen, at high
pressures, turning into a superconducting superfluid. Besides having
the ability to conduct electricity without loss, this new form of
hydrogen would also be a liquid that would flow without friction.

They are crude, rude, and sometimes lewd.  But vidcasting is setting the stage for major turmoil in the television industry.

This project is pretty cheap, if you have a mouse to use the other parts can be obtained for less than ten dollars.

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue
University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used sound waves to
induce nuclear fusion (sonofusion)!

A free stock photo gallery with lot’s of great pictures you can use for
your personal work. You can coose from Amimals, Constructions, 3D
renders, Nature, Textures & Backgrounds, web templates and more.
Great resource!

The last photo says it all…

Just when you think you’ve got your building figured out they go ahead and do this to you. Cool photos.

A giant octopus may have been looking for a date when it attacked a submarine off of Vancouver Island last fall.

A new free book from Wireless Networking in the Developing World
instructs how to assemble and maintain wireless networks in rural towns
in developing countries.

The mission of the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range
Global Policy and the Future Human Condition is ultimately to improve
the human condition in the longer-range future. While there is no sure
path to improving the future human condition, there is no shortage of
books that address themselves to some aspect of improving that future.

Spirit and Opportunity, the spunky NASA rovers that have rolled
around Mars for two years, are the unlikely stars of an IMAX movie,
which opened on Friday, along with the astronomer who helped create
them.

Twenty years ago, millions of television
viewers were horrified to witness the live broadcast of the space
shuttle Challenger exploding 73 seconds into flight, ending the lives
of the seven astronauts on board. And they were equally horrified to
learn in the aftermath of the disaster that the faulty design had been
chosen by NASA to satisfy powerful politicians who [...]