The $100 laptop introduced by Nicholas Negroponte as part of the One Laptop Per Child program will end up costing $175, Associated Press says. The demand for the program is apparent as ’seven nations have expressed interest in being in the initial wave to buy the little green-and-white "XO" computers — Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, […]

A Leicester man is hoping to walk into the record books after pulling a passenger jet with his ears.

This is cool! Using software from GestureTech, your phone’s camera senses motion the way an optical mouse’s sensor does, though the emphasis is twisting rather than linear tracking. The dart board appears on the screen, essentially on a virtual wall in front of you. Your job is to twist around until you’ve got the dart board […]

Microsites, viral games and viral video have become the weapons of choice for seasoned marketers waging "explosive growth" campaigns, according to Marketing Sherpa’s "2007 Viral Marketing Survey."

A Georgia Tech research team has discovered that water exhibits very different properties when it is confined to channels less than two nanometers wide – behaving much like a viscous fluid with a viscosity approaching that of molasses. Determining the properties of water on the nanoscale may prove important for biological and pharmaceutical research as […]

The bark of certain yew trees can yield a medicine that fights cancer. Now scientists find the dirt that yew trees grow in can supply the drug as well, suggesting a new way to commercially harvest the medicine.

The number of adult Internet users who connect via wired broadband may be peaking, according to Ipsos Insight’s "The Face of the Web" study. What we are seeing now is high-speed Internet users trading up to very high-speed Internet connections.

In 1962 the American Moon rocket Ranger IV landed on the far side of the moon but failed to send back pictures due to a technical fault.