Every now and then, devices pop up and offer a glimmer of hope that some day soon, the mouse and keyboard will be as hilariously old-school as Pong and eight-track cartridges, and Logisys’ Optical Finger Mouse is one of them.

Nature can produce some serious oddities.

The right to use 1 hectare of sea, or the size of one and a half soccer fields, could be yours if you are willing to pay at least 300,000 yuan ($39,000). Since March 1, Qingdao in East China’s Shandong Province has put up sea use rights for auction, and it is open to all [...]

She had been the chattel of French monarchs. Francois I bought her. Louis XIV set her up in Versailles. Napoleon moved her into his bedroom. She was Italian, created by Leonardo da Vinci over four years’ labor in Florence, but France was her home and there she stayed for four centuries.

According to U.S. government figures, English is the second language for approximately 5.5 million students in the United States, nearly one-tenth of the total U.S. student body. By 2025, one of every four students in this country’s public school system is expected to initially be limited in English proficiency. (Reminder:  Future of Education event on [...]

The volume of online health information presented by pharmaceutical companies may partially be due to patients’ perception that their physicians lack such data, according to a new Illuminas study sponsored by Cisco Systems.

A Chicago man is suing a tattoo artist and North Side tattoo parlor for allegedly misspelling a tattoo on his chest that was dedicated to the city.

India has so many visa applications from U.S. business executives that its Washington embassy plans to outsource some of the processing.

Political correctness run amok with the introduction of anatomically correct crosswalk signals.

British Banks have been breaking the Data Protection Act by levying excessive charges to customers who are seeking a refund of their bank charges. In a move that has angered customers even further, banks have been making illegal demands for printing statements that would enable customers to demand a refund.