Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss on June 9, 1915 – age 92) is an American jazz guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which “made the sound of rock and roll possible.” His many recording innovations include overdubbing, delay effects such as “sound on sound” and [...]

Pornography director Dez is standing on an outdoor set in the L.A. hills, on the first nice day in months. He’s surrounded by actresses who’re naked except for some strategically placed sheet armor. “It’s been like thirty degrees here,” he laments over the phone, expressing concern about his naked employees trying to “work” in the [...]

In 2004, Richard Box slipped a local farmer £200 to “borrow” a 3,600 m2 field to plant fluorescent light tubes near overhead power lines. The show began at night and oh, what a show it was!

Ever heard of the late 1930s swallowing live goldfish fad that swept the nation (well, okay, colleges)? Turns out it’s a centuries-old tradition in a rural area of Belgium…

Jim Mielke’s wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.

 
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a smart video goggle system that records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video.
Advanced programs then go back and create an easily searchable database of the recorded footage. Designed to function as a high-tech memory aid, these ‘Cyber [...]

Defects in working memory — the brain’s temporary storage bin — may explain why one child cannot read her history book and another gets lost in algebra, new research suggests.
As many as 10% of school age children may suffer from poor working memory, British experts said in a report last week, yet [...]

Jules is a Conversational Character Robot designed and built by David Hanson. Jules is Ai, made with a light weight material called Frubber™ , which enables his/her face to be mobile and expressive. Jules runs on batteries and was commissioned by the UWE with a statistically perfect androgynous face.

 
If you have a problem with your cat being out all night catting around the local alleys and doing God knows what, this is the gadget for you. Maybe he or she is bringing home other furballs and you don’t like it. The Pet Mate Elite is ready to help.
It’s essentially a high-tech Flap/door [...]

 
A university in Devon is set to find out if a ‘baby’ robot can be taught to talk. Staff at the University of Plymouth will work with a creepy 3ft humanoid robot called i Cub, reports the BBC.
Over the next four years, robotics experts will work with language development specialists who research how parents teach [...]

 
Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made two important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that applying an electrical field on a surface-supported gold nanocluster changes its structure from a three-dimensional one to a planar flat structure.

 
A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London.
Professor Darren Crowdy, Chair in Applied Mathematics, has made the breakthrough in an area of mathematics known as conformal mapping, a key theoretical tool used by mathematicians, engineers and scientists to translate information from a complicated [...]

China, with 23.69 billion yuan ($3.16 billion) of proceeds in 2007, has deposed France as the world’s third art auction market, according to a report issued Monday by Arton, China’s largest online art publishing house.

Childhood is the golden era in one’s life. But, a new study has found that it now effectively ends at the age of 11 with parents increasingly succumbing to “pester pressure” from their kids.
Researchers in Britain have found that children are forcing their parents to authorize freedoms that belie their years [...]

Video-game advertising comprises a number of different segments, and they are all seeing plenty of action. Overall, eMarketer projects that US in-game advertising spending will increase from $295 million in 2007 to $650 million in 2012.
In-game advertising spending is buoyed by a vibrant video game industry that is enjoying unprecedented growth. eMarketer projects that video [...]

The University of Waterloo is giving over one of its residence halls to Velocity, a new incubator where students can collaborate on Web, mobile, and digital media applications with their fellow budding tech entrepreneurs and perhaps help breathe some life back into the incubator model.
Velocity will be housed in the 72-bed Minota Hagey dormitory on [...]

 
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research study, released February 28, 2008, states that ten percent of adults are not getting sufficient rest or sleep every night. Chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders also raise the risk for additional health problems.
Further, the study found that 38 percent of the people surveyed did [...]

Launching model rockets was great fun as a kid.  But now a near generation of rocket launchers has emerged, and their toys have grow up substantially. This video is sure to open a few eyes. With gorgeous photos, infectious glee and just a whiff of danger.