Cool Dreams Await You
An air conditioned bed seems like the greatest invention of all time during a season when I wake up every morning and need to moistly peel myself off a stenching sweat silhouette of my own foul, nocturnal drippings. This Kuchofuku model pulls air from near your head and cooled as it travels […]
Don’t Tell Me Ya Love Me…
If there’s anything that USB can’t power, please let me know. At least this talking digital pot called the Pet Plant is only a concept. I can’t imagine one more device being hooked up to my computer, especially a pet. But wait… there is something to be said for this […]
The Infamous Rose-Scented Stamp of Bhutan.
In the past few decades, in order to raise revenue, postal administration of various countries have issued a growing number of …. scented stamps!
As far as how the stamp above evolved, “The tiny nation of Bhutan, located between India and China, is a economically underdeveloped nation. Surprisingly, the country’s lack […]
Reverse Graffiti or Atomic Explosion?
A few months ago, “reverse graffiti” artist Moose traveled to San Francisco where he created a lovely mural by cleaning grime from the walls of San Francisco’s Broadway Tunnel. Moose calls himself a “professor of dirt.” Documentary filmmaker Doug Pray (Scratch, Hype!, etc.) made a short film about the artwork.
Beating the Heat
U.S. scientists say they’ve found the temperature of a photosynthesizing tree leaf is affected less by outside environmental temperature than believed.
Little does he know how much they hate him
The image of the United States remains overwhelmingly negative in most of the predominantly Muslim countries surveyed, a latest global poll revealed on its website.
According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, in Jordan, one of the key regional allies of the United States, 79 percent respondents have […]
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Everyone dreams of flying. Few people actually do it.
David Copperfield has mastered the illusion of flying. Quite ingenious. After the jump is the video as to how he does it.
A Giant Floating Metropolis
Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut, the Lilypad’s creator, describes the city as a “floating ecopolis for climate refugees,” but it looks more like a resort than a shelter. (Pics)
Connecting cultures through pretty girls with cellphones
Brazil, Russia, India and China—collectively known as BRIC—representing 43% of the world’s population, will profoundly change the way both the mobile telecommunications and the marketing industries operate. BRIC will account for nearly 1.2 billion mobile phone subscribers this year.
Eating chocolate is good for you.
We have all heard that eating chocolate is good for you - now here’s a study that tells you why.
Earth like planets common
European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
What happens to an At-At when he walks through a bad neighborhood.
When you’re part of the evil Empire, you have to conquer worlds. Street by street if you have to.
228 Year Old Sunken HMS Ontario
A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the “Holy Grail” shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, astonishingly well-preserved in the cold, deep water, explorers announced.
Researchers boost growth of muscle stem cells to stop age-related muscle deterioration.
Manipulating stem cells in old muscle can restore youth to aging tissue, according to research from the University of California, Berkeley. Scientists altered the activity of a molecular pathway to make stem cells in older tissue produce new muscle fibers at levels comparable to […]
Proposed maglev train
Could a 300mph train from Disneyland to Las Vegas be on the way? A transportation bill just signed into law chips in $45 million to study the idea, which has a maglev (magnetic levitation) train similar to the Shanghai SMT in the picture above making the 260-mile run from fantasyland to sleazetown […]