The man who can jump 8 feet high on a pogo stick was bouncing through San Francisco, on a mission. The mission is to figure out if the world is ready to spend $380 on a pogo stick.

Seisaku-kun is a Chinese humanoid cycling robot that was on display at a recent product unveiling in Beijing.  (w/pics)

Tucked away behind Battlefield 2142’s manual is a plain white, non-descript card. At first glance, it could be mistaken for some kind of registration card, user-license addendum or perhaps a seizure warning. Instead, it’s a strange disclaimer, stating that the user’s IP address and "other anonymous data" would be sent to a company called IGA [...]

A study from ABI Research, "Location-Based Services," projects that personal locator services (PLS), based on GPS-enabled mobile phones will grow rapidly in North America, rising from a small user base of 500,000 to more than 20 million subscribers in 2011.

Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That’s 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.

Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, a clock-like machine consisting of more than 30 precise, hand-cut bronze gears, show it to be more advanced than previously thought—so much so that nothing comparable was built for another thousand years. [...]

As almost anyone who works for a living knows, the Internet is fundamentally, and irreversibly, changing the way job seekers find employment — and employers fill jobs.

New Orleans’ population is still only 41 percent of its size before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city 15 months ago, according to a state survey that casts doubts on rosier predictions by the mayor.

They might be losing out to the New World competition on taste tests, but traditional red wines from the vineyards of France and Italy are the best there are for protecting your health.

We’re all familiar with the x-ray machines encountered in airports, but it may be of interest to see the scale such machines are being developed on, and the sophistication now available for contraband detection in vehicles.

Music on the DS has just taken a giant leap beyond musical games like Electroplankton, thanks to the efforts of German programmer and musician Tob.

Thousands of people who log on to online computer games are displaying the same signs of addiction as gamblers and drug users.

For every dollar spent online, the average search user spends $2.56 offline. This shows that search has the ability to influence an incremental three times the dollar value of e-commerce transactions by reaching consumers who shop in traditional channels.

In a survey conducted earlier this fall by Bluestreak, US online users did not seem overly concerned about the amount of spam in their e-mail boxes. With the exception of users ages 50 and older, none of them thought spam accounted for more than 20% of the volume of e-mails they received.

The government discriminates against blind people by printing money that all feels the same, a federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that could change the face of American currency.

Golf is one of the world’s most frustrating games, and quite often you just want to break things.  Nike has picked up on this fact as a way demonstrating their new high performance golf balls.  Check out this crazy set of videos.

A recent survey by ICOM, an advertising agency network, found that marketers worldwide see newspapers waning in influence. ICOM asked its member agencies whether any traditional media choices were on the decline with no chance of recovery as a result of new ways of reaching audiences.

Teens who play violent video games show increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern self-control, a study released on Tuesday found.

Developers have selected a design by an award-winning American architect for a bold new building nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower — and powered partly by the wind.

For an emerging number of weight-loss surgery patients, giving up comfort food means guzzling Southern Comfort. Or hitting the mall instead of McDonald’s, even though creditors are calling. Researchers call this behavioral shift "addiction transfer," which means swapping one compulsive act, such as overeating, with another in an attempt to numb emotions or fill an inner [...]

Even with all of our science and research capabilities there are things we simply cannot explain.  Here are 13 mind benders that have been puzzling the science world.

For more than two centuries, nails have been the fastener of choice for wood-frame structures. But for all that is riding on nails, they have been the focus of precious little R&D. Nails have evolved into a grab-whatever’s-cheapest commodity, taken for granted by contractors and engineers.

The recipient of the first partial face transplant has recovered so well she can go out without people noticing her scars, her surgeon has said. Isabelle Dinoire, from Amiens, France, received the graft from a brain-dead donor after being mauled by her dog. Here is a recent photo showing her recovery.

Sitting up straight is not the best position for office workers, a study has suggested. Scottish and Canadian researchers used a new form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to show it places an unnecessary strain on your back.

Yoshiaki Kodama is weaving a magic carpet large enough to carry a ship. Conjured up from thin air at the flick of a switch, this slippery blanket will help transport a fully laden tanker or container ship across the ocean at higher speed, and using far less fuel, than ever before.