The auditions for “ET” the Broadway Play, tested far more than each actor’s singing and dancing ability
This week’s top 10 photos come to you from a secret passage buried deep in your back yard.

Here’s a neat poster to help you visualize all of the top-level domains in the world…

 
 
Could “the curse” become the cure? It could happen, if Japanese scientists have their way. Experiments performed at the Keio University school of medicine have succeeded in growing sheets of heart muscle from connective tissue cells harvested from menstrual blood.
 

Voluminous is a subscription-based public domain book delivery program. Once you buy the app, it’ll let you know whenever likely books are scanned and put online; they also keep a bookmarkable library for you.

Who among us really likes being awakened from a deep slumber by a jarring alarm buzzer? Sure, you could get yourself a clock radio or MP3 alarm clock and play some Enya or Kenny G to ease into the day, but who really wants to listen to that? This concept for a visual alarm clock […]

If Caterham Seven-style open-wheelers are last century’s pinnacle of pure performance machines, it seems the concept will survive the transition to the electric age. Evisol’s ThoRR takes its body shape inspiration from a Lotus Super 7, and adds a 272hp Siemens electric motor with a Lithium Polymer battery pack. Quick, light, accurate and nearly silent […]

A new nanomachine from UCLA kills cancer cells as controlled by light.

It’s a bad breath detector!
If you get lucky at the local club you can quickly check yourself out with the meter and buy one of those peppermint sprays if necessary. Better still, you can hold this gadget in front of your hot date’s mouth and check to see if s/he needs to buy some […]

You’ve been babied by power outlets for far too long - if you want charged gadgets, then put a little elbow grease into it! The Hand-Crank USB Power Charger will work on most phones (and the rest, with adapters), cameras… anything with a USB port, really. It may just be your best friend on the […]

FBI Director Robert Mueller
FBI Director Robert Mueller knows there are online places where criminal activity is centralized: the backbone hubs located in hosting facilities across the country. All of the Internet’s activity, legal and illegal, flows through these ‘choke points,’ and the feds, of course, are already tapping those points and siphoning off data. […]

The striking “Falling Towers” building in Beijing nears completion
With the Olympics only a few months away, the Chinese are determined to carve visual images into the minds of the rest of the world with their bold architecture, modern cities, and progressive lifestyle. The “Falling Towers” building is one building that has captured the imagination of […]

 New gauze material is infused with nanoparticles to quickly stop bleeding
Medical gauze has received its first upgrade since World War I. Chemists have infused it with nanoparticles derived from kaolin clay, which somehow give it an amazing ability to stop severe bleeding. It was developed when the Navy approached a team of inorganic chemists at […]

The superlens will open up new options for wireless power like this experiment conducted at MIT
A simple-to-make “superlens” can focus 10 times more sharply than a conventional lens. It could shrink the size of features on computer chips, or help power gadgets without wires.

How to do you find the video you want to watch online?
A March 2008 Synovate study sponsored by ClipBlast! found that when it comes to finding online video, search takes a backseat to unaided navigation (also known as discovery) and content recommendations.
When US Internet users were asked how they found video on the Internet, 28% […]

Wealthy people prefer to shop online
“The Second Annual Survey of Affluence and Wealth in America” report; recently released by American Express Publishing and The Harrison Group found that 70% of US consumers with over $100,000 in discretionary household income surveyed prefer online buying to the in-store experience.
 

 
The geekiest pants ever
“Hey good looking! Wanna play with my keyboard?”
Okay, so that wasn’t a pickup line that ever worked in the past, but here is just the device, well fashion wear, that might make it a workable line. Teach them how to log in, type in their phone number, and hit the return […]