Informa Telecoms & Media forecasts that by 2013, US online TV and video services will generate revenues of $7.9 billion.
In 2007, the market was already worth over $1 billion and by 2008, that figure will leap to $4.7 billion.

 
Written Nov, 1968 - IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide […]

Spinal injuries that leave people paralyzed are currently incurable, one of the most feared and rehabilitating things that can happen to you. But researchers at Northwestern University are looking to change that for good, as they’re hard at work on a new nanotechnology that could enable us to completely heal cut and severed spinal cords, […]

Moov is probably one of the most amazing toys you will see this year: a do-it-yourself 4-in-1 vehicle kit for kids aged between 5 and 12. Now it’s a racer, now it’s a carver, now it’s a tricycle, now it’s a scooter. How cool is that?

Behold the YouTube Doubler … because two YouTube clips playing at once is bound to be twice the fun of one clip playing by itself. Plus, almost everything is better when played next to a clip of a laughing baby.

A bizarre find in Pioneer Park Pond in Brigham City, Utah has biologists stumped.
Craig Schaugaard, Aquatic Manger for the Department of Wildlife Resources, said, “When we first saw that fish, we thought, ‘What in the crap is this thing?’”

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 That is Claud the Kung Fu bear from Hiroshima City, Japan. You can see another video after the jump.
 

For married women who can’t figure out why they always have so much housework researchers may have the answer — husbands.
A new study from the University of Michigan shows that having a husband creates an extra seven hours of extra housework a week for women. But a wife saves her husband from an hour of […]

Designers have been exploring the idea of the glass see-thru bathtub.  Here are 7 interesting designs.  If you don’t mind doing tons of cleaning, or have a maid and just don’t care, this might be exactly what you’re looking for.
 
 

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Yes, it’s a bit goofy looking. But for those people who are limited in their mobility and still want to exercise, or joggers who want to seriously increase the distance they are traveling, this might be the solution. For guys, the seat arrangement might be a bit tough on Guss and the twins.
 

 
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While the housing slump has come to dominate American presidential debates and has sent Wall Street into a tailspin, the consequences of millions of foreclosures across the United States are also being felt far overseas. Nowhere is that more true than in Switzerland, the serene land of snowy peaks, ice-cold lakes and staid banks long […]

In a few years’ time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service.
Open-source promoters have welcomed the endorsement by what is seen as a conservative commentator, but predict the changes will go […]

Scientists at Hiroshima University have succeeded in breeding see-through frogs — an innovation that could cut down on future dissections.