More than 100 homes offering smart technology have just been built in South Korea and another 30,000 are planned.

Not content with having set two official Guinness World Records for solo stoppies, Buell Motorcycles professional extreme rider Craig Jones has been busy rewriting the record books and rules of extreme riding once again.

Even as more and more people are starting to experiment with downloading podcasts onto their computers or portable MP3 players, it seems that the fever is not catching on terribly fast.

The trend began early last week, when the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) released new data showing that US Internet advertising revenues reached a record $4.2 billion in the third quarter of 2006.

From the slow news day reporter, this just in.  M&M’S are launching eight new flavors of their popular candies.

Liquid armor using shear thickening fluid (STF) is being developed at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. STF is made up of hard silica particles suspended in polyethylene glycol, a non-toxic fluid. Kevlar fiber vests soaked with STF are pliable under normal conditions.