Danny Westneat:  I think intensely local, professionally gathered news is due for a comeback. It’s the one thing you can’t get anywhere else.

Gordon Dillow:  Until they passed a law against it, I had never heard of the trend known among teenagers as "trunking" – that is, riding as a passenger in a moving car while locked in the trunk.

Eight out of 10 ideas for a business or invention never see the light of day, according to new research carried out by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). The investor commissioned the research to find out why so few ‘good ideas’ make their way to the balance sheet.

A new article just published implies that Sony may be ready to enter the arena of personal transporters.

Apple just can’t catch a break this week, what with all those backdating shenanigans and lawsuits galore. Now it’s been lumped with such ilk as Google and Napster in a patent lawsuit regarding online video distribution.

According to an official Chinese government source, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the number of people using the Internet in China grew by 30% in 2006 and now totals more that 132 million.

A five-year-old Canadian boy can have two mothers and a father, an Ontario court ruled this week in a landmark case that redefines the meaning of family and examines the rights of parents in same-sex relationships.

Throwing a genetic switch helps mice grow more of a mysterious muscle fiber that lets them run farther and longer than normal mice, a paper in the January issue of the journal Cell Metabolism reports.

Confounding the old image of price shoppers, a new report from the Grizzard Performance Group discovered that the majority of US shoppers today do not have time to "shop around."

The North Face’s Endurus XCR Boa trail running shoes sports a “lacing system that lets you tie your shoes by turning a special knob".

A vibrating vest that writes messages on its wearer’s back is being tested by researchers in the US. In future, it could be used to send important commands to soldiers or fire-fighters, warning them of imminent danger when ordinary radios cannot be used.