Nine out of 10 US households surveyed have a television in the living room, and nearly two-thirds of those living rooms also have PCs, according to JupiterResearch’s recent “Digital Home: Moving Beyond the Concept of the Three Screens to Uncover New Revenue Opportunities” report.
JupiterResearch also found that 22% of homes have three or more PCs.

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

What do you do when you want to try sufing but a trip to either coast is out of the question? Well you can try to make your own massive waves…but the easier way would be to simply buy a Monojet Surf Board.

Treehugger has a short and sweet article about the Belmont Clothes Library in Australia, which loans out business apparel to the unemployed so they can look smart for job interviews!

Scientists are working on making teeth regrow the crystals that make up dentin and enamel. This process could eliminate drilling and filling to combat tooth decay. Sally Marshall, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, is looking for a way to catch decay early and cause teeth to start “remineralizing”.

Apparently scientists (and some of our readers, surely) have known that we can grow oil for years, and not in the grow-corn-make-oil kind of way.

A fingerprint identification technology for use in Personal Identification Verification (PIV) cards that offers improved protection from identity theft meets the standardized accuracy criteria for federal identification cards according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The following is a reprint of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel. 
America’s two main parties are suffering from the erotic escapades of some of their top politicians. As embarrassing as they are for those involved, the revelations are good for democracy. They expose a particularly audacious type of politician: the hypocrite whose supposed virtue is […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIJtFMp2Bo

Yes, this is all in Japanese, but very cool anyway.  Simroid is a 28 year-old powered female robot designed to train dental students and help improve their communication skills. With senors embedded in her, Simroid is able to simulate real life reactions from dental patients, such as raising of hand while the dentist is cleaning […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0u0wWOMIsE

This is very funny.  Its a spoof of the great Dove Evolution film. They’ve been nominated for an EMMY for Outstanding Broadband Comedy.
 

 
 Yes, it actually works, but that doesn’t mean its practical. More of a form of functional art. Video after the jump.

The already crazed competition for admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges became even more intense this year, with many logging record low acceptance rates.
Harvard College, for example, offered admission to only 7.1 percent of the 27,462 high school seniors who applied — or, put another way, it rejected 93 of every 100 […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVb9yUOek88

This is a fascinating video of a Velvet Worm and shows how it attacks a beetle.  Strange.  Very strange.
 

 
US scientists have perfected a new technique to magnify by more than 1,000 times molecules deep inside the human body which may help detect minuscule tumors, a study said.
The technique of non-invasive molecular imaging of small subjects uses a phenomenon known as Raman spectroscopy and the research team from Stanford University School […]

Arrow 1 points to the spermatophore groove of the
inserted hectocotylus. Arrow 2 points an oviducal gland
They flirt, hold hands and guard their lovers jealously — yet they don’t even have bones. The love lives of octopuses are far more complex than anyone thought, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, reported.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a-l1tb1rPg

Today in Los Angeles, a private space company unveiled the latest entrant in the race to send paying passengers into suborbital space.
The Lynx, in development by XCOR Aerospace, is envisioned as a two-seat vehicle that will allow a paying passenger to ride up front with the pilot to experience weightlessness and see the Earth from […]