If you saw someone wearing these Hello Kitty contact lenses, you would miss everything they said because you would be busy trying to figure out what is wrong with their eyes.

Flying fish were the inspiration for an unmanned seaplane with a 7-foot wingspan developed at the University of Michigan. The autonomous craft is believed to be the first seaplane that can initiate and perform its own takeoffs and landings on water.

A Quebec man has sold the "magnificent" two-metre-high snowbank in front of his home on EBay for $3,550, less than two weeks after putting it up for sale – to a buyer who plans to use it for a snowball fight with his family.

Outplacement
consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc released a list of what it
called 2007’s most unbelievable workplace stories. Some
highlights: Workers in Scotland
lined up to take classes which encouraged flirting to get ahead in their
careers. Class exercises included purring like a kitten and dancing like
Christina Aguilera and Justin
Timberlake.

The word that best describes this week’s photos is “painful”. But truly an amazing set of painful photos.

The digital lifestyle has arrived in the country and home automation is the latest in a hightech world that promises ultimate luxury. A home network integrates all the appliances into a single system controlled through a remote control. Intelligent homes offer conveniences one wouldn’t have even imagined a decade ago.

A prototype solar tree that recently went on display on a busy street in Vienna, Austria has passed a key test by providing light during the night-time even when the sun had been blocked by clouds for four days in a row. The branches of the solar tree were decorated with 10 solar lamps, each [...]

YouTube has an end of the year list, but there’s something a little strange about all the media coverage today on the "top YouTube videos of 2007." These aren’t the most viewed videos of the year. They are YouTube’s selection of the "most memorable." The most viewed video on YouTube this year was Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend, [...]

It is one of the biggest companies in the world and now the internet giant Google has also been dubbed the most employee-friendly.

People in many parts of the world indulge in the curious practice of eating dirt, also known as geophagy.
But why they do so has remained something of a mystery, until now.

A Korean newscast reports on a hybrid breed of carp with "human faces."