The fine art of invention is alive and well.  On November 15th, inventors from around the world will be turning the CableCenter at DU into one of the largest tech playgrounds with the kickoff of The Colorado Inventor Showcase 2007.  Here are some crazy invention photos.

Sometimes a simple little graphic is all that is needed to sort out the changing roles between males and females.

Powerful people, eating powerful food.  Which has exactly nothing to do with this weeks top ten amazing photos.

A big red sign that says "Stop" sometimes isn’t enough to get everyone to stop. Maybe a laugh will get their attention.

Visitors to the opening day of Sexpo in South Africa today were treated to live demonstrations by Australian artist Tim Patch, alias "Pricasso," of his penis paintings of famous global figures.

In light of all the recent iPhone update problems, we wanted to ask readers what you think Apple’s intention was with the update.

A new analysis of high-resolution satellite images — completed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — pinpoints evidence consistent with village destruction, forced relocations, and a growing military presence at 25 sites across eastern Burma where eye-witnesses have reported human rights violations.

Perhaps no surprise that this is the brainchild of an Australian who likes cycling. This is the StreetSurfer, a contraption that looks like a bike, but is handled like a surfboard.

Pills, sponges, IUDs, diaphragms– women have many options for planning their fertility, none of them quite perfect.

He’s now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he’s having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed to take their challenge to Austria’s Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.

Converting speech into sign language is normally a job for a human translator. But now an animated character is up to the task.

Reducing U.S. elementary school class sizes might be among the most cost-effective ways to reduce healthcare costs, a study suggests.

A low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet and a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet both improve weight loss, enhance mood, and speed thinking, a study shows, but the low-carb diet may offer less benefit in terms of the rate of cognitive processing.

It’s not just people who find it hard to get going in the morning. Cockroaches don’t like mornings either, according to U.S. researchers.

The family meal may be threatened with extinction but "High-Tech" parents are now communicating much better with their teenagers and giving them more freedom, says child psychologist Richard Woolfson.

Okay, this one is amazing. But at the same time, weren’t they supposed to be making robots clumsily—and harmlessly—lumber along like the Honda Asimo, not spry and limber like this Japanese jumping frog robot? (w/video)