Ben Cook’s fingers flurried so fast you could not see what he was doing until he had done it.  But when the cell phone screens cleared, the 18-year-old world’s fastest text messenger was handed his first head-to-head defeat Tuesday: a voice recognition computer had bested his record time on a complicated 27-word message by 66 [...]

Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women — and the occasional man — convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in front of the eye itself.

iPod toys are all the rage, but rarely are they the light for your life, until now.

Before you request a paternity test, spend a few minutes looking at your child’s eye color.  It may just give you the answer you’re looking for.  According to Bruno Laeng and colleagues, from the University of Tromso, Norway, the human eye color reflects a simple, predictable and reliable genetic pattern of inheritance. 

Sometimes overlooked by US online marketers, Canada is beginning to receive the attention it deserves and with good reason. Here are some great stats.

When it comes to protecting the environment, dynamite is not one of the materials that comes to mind.  Here is an unusual approach to good forest management and at the same time you get to blow things up.

One of Britain’s leading ‘gift experience’ companies has just added tank paintball to its list of activities. In addition to, say, a ride in a hot air balloon or a winetasting course, www.funday.com is offering two hours of intensive tank warfare for £74 a head. (w/pics)

Hot on the heals of Google’s acquisition of YouTube, comScore Media Metrix released data showing the top 10 video properties on the Web. Coming in top with over 20% of all video streams in August 2006 was Fox Interactive (including MySpace), followed by Yahoo!, at 11.8%, and YouTube, at 9.9%. In August, Google was well [...]

Sexless relationships are becoming increasingly prominent among young couples, with 28 percent of men in their 30s having sex less than once a month, a lifestyle survey has found.