Whistler, the brainchild of software developer Richard Whitelock, promises to turn the pen-tapper or shower-maestro in all of us into polished drum beats and melodies, which can then be used in any modern music production software.

Thomas Frey:  Transportation technology is progressing at a much slower pace than some of the other sciences such as information technology, biotech, and nanotechnology.  As an example, the world’s human speed record was set in 1969, a full 37 years ago, when Thomas Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan flew in Apollo 10 at 24,790 [...]

Japan’s annual fishing quota for southern bluefin tuna, a sought-after delicacy in the world’s largest fish consumer, will be halved for the next five years due to Tokyo’s overfishing, a government agency said on Monday.

It is three meters tall and productive even in poor soil, it holds up in droughts and typhoons, and it yields twice as many stems as most sugarcane. No wonder they call it "Monster Cane".

In what is billed as the "first definitive metrics for mobile advertising,"M:Metrics found that a sizable percentage of mobile subscribers are responding to short codes placed in advertisements or other media.

Bacon caramel is like a chewy SKOR Bar with bacon. For those off-the-wall midnight weird flavor cravings.

All bottles of wine sold in Britain are likely to carry tobacco-style health warnings from next year under government plans to crack down on binge drinking.