The University of Michigan’s Center for Objective Microelectronics and Biomimetic Advanced Technology (COM-BAT) is working on building a robot bat that would perform long-range reconnaissance for the U.S. Army, but U.Mich is currently struggling with miniaturizing components in order to make the bat small enough to be stealthy.

Currency exchange outlets in Amsterdam won’t trade US dollars for euros because the value of the dollar is dropping so quickly they’re afraid of losing money, even with the outlandish vigorish the sleazy little joints usually tack on.

With all the Star Wars items on the market today, this has to be pretty bad, tacky and just out there stuff, to have been rejected right? How about Bantha slippers? Some seem fine, if a bit odd, like Galactic Foosball or the Death Star dart board. My favorite is the Galactic Big Game trophies. [...]

 
Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota’s state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all.

We are pretty sure these are not normal people.  We have no clue what they are saying, but the competition is funnier than hell.
 

In her talk at the Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, Oxford economist Karen Croxson suggests that piracy does not necessarily undermine profit as pirates may actually help to promote the product they steal. 
Ms Croxson said: ‘Digital piracy has been claimed to endanger whole industries. A natural question to ask is: [...]

 
Igor Volodin believes vodka is no more harmful than chocolate. He is proud to be the first Russian to produce the spirit in a special women’s version, designed to be sipped with salad after a workout in the gym.
Touted as a glamor product for upwardly mobile women in booming Russia, Damskaya or [...]

He may be retired and out of office, but his words still carry considerable heft — especially when it comes to quieting things down. “We will never have a perfect model of risk,” veteran market guru Alan Greenspan wrote in Monday’s edition of the Financial Times. There have always been periods of euphoria and periods [...]

Questionaut is a beautiful click game where you answer and collect elementary-level questions. From the picture, you may have guessed it’s from Amanita Designs (yes, the Samorost people).

An eminent British neuro-surgeon has been performing complex brain operations using a £30 do-it-yourself cordless power drill at a clinic in Ukraine.
Henry Marsh, a senior consultant at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, has used the Bosch 9.6 volt battery-operated hand tool to open up the skulls of his patients to remove life-threatening [...]

 
You too can now look cool and geeky as you cruise down the road on your favorite moped. All it takes is these new 1.3 Megapixel Spy Camera Sunglasses, available through ThinkGeek for around $100. But there is more…

 
Throughout the region, buyers of all stripes are feeling similarly empowered to bid low and keep their hopes high. The practice still fails more often than not, in that buyers are unlikely to get themselves a steal. But many sellers are swallowing hard and negotiating, because lowballing has become so common that, for better or [...]

 
In an annual survey, Knowledge Networks has found that members of the Millennial generation (currently those ages 13 to 28) are more likely than people of other generations to watch TV shows online. They are also more likely, according to the survey results, to give purchase consideration to episode sponsors.