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 […]

 Lunar Design’s Blu Jacket
Lunar Design’s Blu Jacket is a futuristic concept that could make walking billboards a very distinct possibility in the near future. And to do that, Lunar Design has sandwiched electronics, notably futuristic organic fabrics, into the BLU Jacket concept. These futuristic fabrics which can contain semiconductors will enable the BLU jacket display […]

 
Geomagnetism is an influential force on humanity
Scientists believe that earth’s magnetic field may be responsible for suicidal behavior among people.
Oleg Shumilov of the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia studied earth’s geomagnetic field from 1948 to 1997 and found three seasonal peaks, from March to May, July and October. […]

China. Ahh. Proud hosts of the most divisive Olympic Games in 30 years, are now asking for some help cleaning up their toxic air quality.
Lacking the time, and usually the money, to put into research for new, green technologies from other developed nations, the ministry of technology has asked to “establish a mechanism of technological […]

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Hilarious, albeit morally incorrect video
This is a crazy game show where the prizes are orphans.
 

Who does the best job with their recycling program?
When you consider that the average lifespan of most electronics devices is about three to five years, it’s not surprising to hear that we junk about 2 million tons of e-waste every year. As we constantly upgrade our cellphones, TVs and computers, there are also endless “disposable” […]

The Iron Man Movie opens in theaters on May 2nd
Iron Man director Jon Favreau takes you on a tour of the set, revealing the cave where Tony Stark built the first Iron Man suit, his private jet and more. Sneak peak after the jump.

Actress Megan Fox in “Transformers”
Actress Megan Fox was named the world’s sexiest woman on Wednesday by an annual online poll, while the world’s most Googled woman, Britney Spears, barely scraped in at No. 100 after a shocker of a year.
Fox, 21, who starred in last year’s hit movie “Transformers,” grabbed the title from actress […]

 
A witch doctor’s office
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in local religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and […]

Study: Praise has been shown to trigger the same reward center of the brain as cash
Paying people a compliment appears to activate the same reward center in the brain as paying them cash, Japanese researchers said on Wednesday.
They said the study offers scientific support for the long-held assumption that people get a psychological boost from […]

Writer and author Amy Tan gets creative with creativity
 
Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes from. It’s a wild ride with a surprise ending.

The Ultimate Steampunk Computer
Jake Von Slott has created a Steampunk Computer that is sure to knock the socks off any steampunk enthusiast. He took a huge 24 inch LCD monitor and crammed an entire CPU behind it and the design looks incredible. Video after the jump.
 

Photobucket Founders Alex Welch and Darren Crystal
On May 21st the DaVinci Institute will host the now infamous dual of Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, the two founders of Photobucket, who will tell the story of what it took for them to launch what is now the World’s number one photo site on the Internet. […]

 
Podcasting is a growing form of media with loyal niche markets
Although there are a few highly-rated podcasts with more than 100,000 listeners/viewers, most podcasts have far smaller audiences, highly-focused on niche interests. 
According to long-tail theory, these targeted audiences should be especially valuable to advertisers and marketers. Although the audiences are small, each listener or […]

NASA’s new nano-satellites - The Mini AERCam prototype is just 7.5 inches in diameter and weighs only 10 pounds
NASA announced today that it will team with m2mi to develop very small satellites, called nano-sats which weigh between 11 to 110lb, for the development of telecommunications and networking services in space.
NASA says […]