For around $867 USD (7,000 Yuan) you can own a retro-styled cell phone with an integrated stun gun — called the “Shock Stick”. Great photos.

Scott Adams:  Yesterday I told you I would give my clear opinion on as many questions as I could get to. Here now, my answers.

A blonde, wanting to earn some money, decided to hire herself out as a handyman-type and started canvassing a wealthy neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had any jobs for her to do.

Steve Baker:  I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that 98% of businesses are small businesses. That bodes well for the entrepreneurial spirit that has made our nation great. The bad news is that 80%, that’s right, four out of five new businesses will fail in their first five years.

Three students plus lots of aluminum foil and one unsuspecting teachers office equals a major April Fools Day Joke.  Check out these amazing photos.

From the medical field comes word of a device that can tell you if you’re boring.

In a move that’s sure to annoy tobacco-lovers nationwide, especially underage ones, Japan has announced that the country’s 620,000 cigarette vending machines will be replaced with models that require an RFID-embedded age-verification card to release their delicious-but-deadly wares.

According to Nielsen//NetRatings, two-thirds of all Americans use their mobile phones while in the bathroom. Sun Microsystems has come up with a way to detect when a cell phone is in use in the bathroom in order to provide bathroom-specific mobile advertising.

You have heard of product placement in movies and video games but scientists and marketers have now cracked the code for entering a new channel: advertising in your dreams.

As many as 10 million tiny satellites, some up to 100 meters in diameter, are orbiting Saturn within its rings, scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission reported.  Great photos.

A farmer was yesterday toasting the health of a cow that made a wonder recovery after being treated with beer.

Steve Deerwood had 2,507 22-gauge (1.5 inch long) surgical needles inserted into his body by Jeremy VanWert in 6 hours and 15 minutes at Body Matrix of Bemidji, MN, USA on May 1, 2005. The previous record, verified by Guinness World Records TM, was for 745 needles.

GM today unveiled a Saab concept vehicle that runs on ethanol and battery power.

In a garage in Los Altos, California,
in 1976, two young college dropouts and some friends assembled and
soldered 500 motherboards by hand to be sold by a local hobbyist
electronics shop.

The pattern of brain growth during development
may figure more importantly than overall brain size when it comes to
intelligence, according to a new study.

German prostitutes are signing up for a career change, training to
become nurses to tend to the country’s aging population or working
phones as tele-marketers.

Scientists have identified and blocked the action of a protein
linked to the spread of breast, prostate and skin cancer cells to the
bones.

Many of you can breath easier now.  This one comes from the #1 name in flatulence odor control products.

Research is now showing that advertisers do not trust television commercials alone to do the job anymore. Great stats.

Austrian ski champion Harry Egger is hoping a space age suit will enable him to become the world’s fastest man on skis.

Americans are nearly as worried about their country’s dependence on foreign energy sources as they are about the war in Iraq, a poll released by the magazine Foreign Affairs showed on Thursday.

Half the population are in a permanent state of jet-lag because their body clocks are so out of synch with the demands of modern life, sleep researchers claim.

Johns Hopkins University researchers say they have used mouse mutants to define critical steps involved in learning basic motor skills.

A Wheeling Jesuit University student study suggests playing sports and fighting video games produces a dramatic level of pain distraction.

University of Illinois researchers have reported the first documented case of an amphibian communicating ultrasonically, as do bats, whales and dolphins.