Sometimes the trick is not having to make more than one trip. Other times simply getting to where you are going can be a difficult task. Here are a series of photos that span a variety of obstacles, places and things.

For years, radio-frequency identification, or RFID, tags have been used to track everything from highway tolls to pets, but only Hitachi’s newest tag is skinny enough to fit inside a dollar bill.

Scientists at the University of Kentucky have built tiny pipes that move water 10,000 times as fast as the conventional laws of fluid flow allow.

Vacation snapshots are nice, but wouldn’t they be nicer if you could swipe your cellphone over them to retrieve video, sound files and captions?

French medical scientists have identified a mutation in a gene called AURKC (Aurora Kinase C) in 14 infertile men of North African descent.

Here’s something cool from Dutch designer Demakersvan: a wind-powered outdoor lamp!

Multitasking begins as early as age 2, according to the NPD Group’s "Kids’ Leisure Time II" report. Kids between the ages of 2 and 12 years old spend more than a quarter of their leisure time doing two or more activities at the same time. Favorite pastimes among the sample group included reading, using the […]

Futurist Thomas Frey has predicted the US income tax system will collapse within the next few years because of the exponential nature of complexity.  Keep this in mind as you read through the following piece by Henry Blodget and his proposed solutions.

Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious ‘colony collapse’ of bees. It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail.

Google is set to earn some $6.3 billion in net US online ad revenues in 2007. Meanwhile, total US online ad revenues are likely to reach $19.5 billion. Many economists define a monopoly as a company that controls 25% or more of a given industry. So, with the announcement of its purchase of DoubleClick, has […]