For those whose morning buzz lacks glow, don’t give up! A new breakfast cereal promises to top your morning off with speed and efficiency. The first tester of Captain Buzz’s new Spazztroids cereal went 27 days without sleep, after eating only one bowl. During that time, he was able to speed through required doctoral course […]

A Melbourne scientist and night club owner has discovered that growing micro organisms onto compact discs can alter and reshape the music or images stored within them, to the extent that totally new sounds and remixes are formed within the CD.
Named the ‘optical biocomputer’ by its inventor Dr. Cameron Jones, the process was discovered by […]

Whoever said you had to a have a big motor to go fast never shook hands with Jakob Hirzel. His challenge was to design a gravity racer for the Xtreme Gravity Series in Irvine, California, and it’s safe to say he did very very well.

A new “pay-per-view funerals” service will enable bereaved friends and relatives to watch proceedings on their computer screens if they cannot pay their respects in person.
Critics believe the webcasting of ceremonies from a suburban crematorium in the UK to the world is macabre. But from today, Southampton crematorium will begin the £75-per-family service.

Why settle for Vitaminwater? Go for the flavor you really crave with Meatwater! It comes in many flavors:

 
Photons are easy to produce, at least en masse. But making them one at a time in a controlled fashion is much harder. Until recently the only trick physicists had for this was to reduce the brightness of a beam until it contained only one photon at a time, on average. Video after the jump.

Sure, you’ve played a lot of games, but now your favorite cat can get into the action thanks to the latest in video gaming technology — the CatBox 360.
Cats want games too. If your cat wants to get into some gaming action, he or she just steps into the automatic litter box, and a […]

Female US Internet users are now leading males in the use of social networking, DVRs, online network TV shows, and PC gaming, according to Solutions Research Group.
Based on surveys conducted in February 2008 and between October 2006 and November 2007, more women than men—42% of online women versus 41% of online men—had visited a social […]

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A Swiss company called Rinspeed has recently announced its newest project: an underwater car. Named “sQuba,” the car can both drive on roads, and then - at the push of a button - dive up to 10 meters (33 feet) under the sea.

Shifting through the mossy undergrowth of Germany’s Black Forest, antennae raised and leg joints quietly clicking forward, OLE (pronounced “oh-luh”) is a St. Bernard–size bug on the prowl. But this mechanized insect isn’t a scavenger—it’s a guardian.

A tortoise that smokes and appears to be addicted to nicotine has been discovered in China’s northeastern province of Jilin, state media reported on Thursday.

New research from Indiana University and Yale suggests that college-age men confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest because the men have a less discerning eye than women — but their female peers aren’t far behind.

An international team of astronomers has found 10 new “extra solar” planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun.

Just what the hell fool came up with this idea? Let me just put my T-focals on and read you what the blurb says. “A soft tub for the body.