The brilliant minds at Worth 1000 have done it again.  Their most recent project challenges their artists to take a modern product and cast it in a vintage setting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E90oOf7YIvI

Alone in his workshop at home, Greg Dunham crafted the world’s largest motorcycle.
 

Here is a great way to slow down traffic on a busy street.  The real secret to this is after the jump.
 

Scientists have known for more than a decade that a protein associated with the HIV virus is good at crossing cell membranes, but they didn’t know how it worked. A multidisciplinary team from the University of Illinois has solved the mystery, and their findings could improve the design of therapeutic agents that cross a variety […]

 
 
Prosper Marketplace, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based company that operates Prosper.com, an online auction website where individuals can buy loans and request to borrow money. Borrowers set the maximum interest rate they wish to pay, and loan buyers, called “lenders,” bid on specific loans by committing a portion of the principal and setting the […]

An Associated Press article about the impact of the internet on journalism has a few interesting findings. A few years ago, it was expected that the internet would democratize news coverage. While print media is being rapidly reborn online, web-based news appears to be constraining the number of conversations instead of expanding them.

 
Six 6 botnets are responsible for 85 percent of the world’s spam.
The spam experts at Marshal go into great detail about how these six operations are hijacking computers around the world and using them to clog the Internet pipes with more garbage emails than anyone can ever imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCjv4_jqAY

 
This one is totally amazing. Melodyne is a breakthrough technology that makes it possible to edit individual notes within chords and polyphonic audio material.
What this means is that people, working at home in their basements, can create entire symphonies. Crummy rock band can now sound great. And the music mashup playground will suddenly […]

In general, sales of music have been struggling while video game sales have soared. In 2007, video game retail revenues tripled while music sales fell 10%.
But according to an NPD Group report, hardcore gamers are actually more likely to buy music and DVDs than video games.

 
Productivity is a top concern for business travelers and they are demanding connectivity on-the-go according to a February 2008 Sommers Market Research survey sponsored by Hyatt Place.
According to the study, 78% of business travelers want to be as as productive when traveling as they are in the office.

 
This one is very cool.  Experience water in a whole new way with - Ring faucet. This unique faucet visually frames flowing water in a circular fashion, giving you a full view of the water just as it falls over the edge.

The new stereo camera is really amazing with novel look, high resolution, and easy way to use. Press the shutter, get a simple viewer, then you can enjoy an unbelievable experience of high resolution stereo pictures!