A Japanese inventor is on the verge of creating the first mobile ’smellophone’, a gadget which can capture an odour and then replay it back later, just as camcorders do with images.

A few years back I used to have one of the Palm devices with the pen. I was sold on it by a friend who effortlessly wrote his notes on the device like a pro. I got one and could never get my handwriting recognised on it, selling the thing in a matter of months. [...]

Denis Simioni, 38, had owned an advertising and graphic design firm for 15 years in his native Oakville, Ont., when he first happened upon a substance called "ojon." Seven years later that little word has transformed his life, along with the lives of thousands of indigenous Hondurans, who supply ojon oil to his hair-care company, [...]

This is one of the strangest churches you’ll ever see.  It is in the Czech Republic and decorated entirely with human bones. Real human bones, about 40,000 sets of them, that were dug up by a half-blind monk to allow room for “new guests.”