http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uPznTbus3g

 
Freeriding on the unicycle
If this looks easy, you really don’t understand unicycles. These things are hard to do anything on. Second video after the jump.
 

 Give your plant a voice.  Let it be heard!
This device let’s your plant talk and share it’s feelings with the whole world over the web, and post it on Twitter. You build it with an electronic kit from Adafruit called Botanicalls Twitter Kit, which attaches to your plants, and sends all the plants’ thoughts and […]

A battle brewing as the Chaiten Volcano erupts in an amazing electrical storm
Few sights in nature can compare to the sheer magnificence of a volcano erupting in full flow.
But while scenes of molten lava are relatively commonplace, this otherworldly picture of Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile shows a truly spectacular, and devastating, volcanic phenomenon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQKZOaB6cY

Train your fish to do amazing tricks
A man has taught his goldfish how to dunk a basketball, score a goal at football and limbo under a bar. Two-year-old Comet the fish cam also swim through a tube and collect hoops after the positive reinforcement training by owner Dr Dean Pomerleau.

But Can It Do The Dishes?

What if you could control everything in your home with a little handheld gadget? That’s what this universal remote by David Chacon got us thinking about, with its roomy screen - a nerve center right in your pocket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hcWZcXeik0

 
 Amazing but totally crazy pilot
 Another interesting video after the jump.
 

 
Getting the public to accept a process that strikes some as ghastly may be a big challenge
Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest-dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and […]

“There are four major transformations that are shaping political, economic and world events”
This is a paper presented several weeks ago by Herb Meyer at a Davos, Switzerland meeting which was attended by most of the CEOs from all the major international corporations — a very good summary of today’s key trends and a perspective […]