Immigration officers at British airports will begin lifting the veils of passengers to verify identity, The Scotsman said Sunday.

The following is the 12th part of an exclusive Impact Lab series called the Twelve Trends of Christmas by Thomas Frey.  Title: The Complexity Disease

The three decade era of the VCR has finally ended with the home video recording baton being passed briefly to the DVD player before the market decides what comes next from a plethora of technologies such as Tivo, VOD, DirecTV and direct recording to computer.

Trends related to our homes and our food are changing.  Here is the 1st part of an iVillage discussion with three home and food experts that will surely keep us buzzing about next year.

Electric utility Southern California Edison and Australian-based Allco Finance Group Ltd. have signed the biggest contract for wind power in U.S. history, the two companies said on Thursday.

Research firm In-Stat has published its annual list of emerging and hot technology market trends for the year ahead. The firm’s list includes "heterogenous multi-architectural processors," wireless HDMI, PVRs, WiMAX, UWB wireless USB, ZigBee, and 3G, GPS, and DTV in China.

This short animated clip of "Ding Fries are Done" has become a cult classic.  (One of the Impact Labs most viewed pages)  We thought you’d enjoy seeing this one again in time for Christmas.

The Center for Responsible Lending, a private consumer group, calculates that nationally payday loans totaled at least $28 billion in 2005, doubling in five years. While such lending is effectively banned in 11 states, through usury or other laws, it is flourishing in 39 others.