If you think you’ve seen a lot of amazing clocks in your life, well, here’s your chance to see some that are both remarkable and strange, but at the same time, very cool.
Our judges have spoken.  You may know of a better design, and we’d like to know about it.  But out of the […]

Digging has resumed at a site in the southeastern German town of Deutschneudorf, where treasure hunters believe there are almost 2 tons of Nazi gold and possibly clues to the whereabouts of the legendary Amber Room, a prize taken from a Russian castle during World War II.

Yes, at times this seems a bit gay, but a totally amazing performance.

A Japanese firm on Tuesday unveiled a portable, personal exercise instructor in the form of a headset which will give instant advice by checking the pulse on the wearer’s earlobe.
The “Body Trainer” by Sega Toys Co. comprises a phone to be put in the right ear and a tiny clip to be attached to the […]

If you’re sick of bowling at the local circus known as the bowling alley, why not enjoy a bowling alley in your home? You’ve seen it in movies and on TV. The show Las Vegas comes to mind. You can now have a custom bowling alley in your home too.
United Bowling is a Florida […]

Information about even the tiniest details of our daily lives zooms along neurons in our brains and is processed and saved in some predetermined location. How and what information is stored in the memory is in part dependent on whether an individual is a man or a woman. While the underlying mechanisms that explain memory […]

 
European antitrust regulators on Wednesday fined Microsoft $1.3 billion for failing to comply with a 2004 judgment that the company had abused its market dominance.
The new fine by the European Commission brings the total fines levied on Microsoft to about $2.5 billion in current exchange rates.

 
48% of teenagers bought no CDs at all in 2007, up from 38% in 2006. Music downloads continue to grow, though, with iTunes leading the way.
The illegal sharing of music online continued to soar in 2007, but there was one sign of hope that legal downloading was picking up steam. In the last year, Apple […]

Fish have the limited ability to count directly up to four, say scientists.
Christian Agrillo, an experimental psychologist at the university of Padua in Italy, said that it was during a study on North American mosquito fish that their limited mathematical ability was observed.
The researcher said that the […]

Screen Digest anticipates that sports content will be the single biggest driver of online video consumption in the US and UK, much in the same way that it was a driver of pay-TV adoption.
The number of online sports videos watched will more than double in both the US and UK over the next five […]

When I saw the first part of this video, I was thinking its just a remote control helicopter. But once the pilot took his seat below it, I began to understand the potential here.
Yes, it’s very noisy. And yes, it looks incredibly dangerous. But using something like this to “jump” to the […]