The first environmentally sustainable toaster 
The Nahamer T450 toaster concept from Rob Penny gets a big thumbs-up in the design department with its good looks and viewing window.

 
Great way to implant sounds and even specific messages inside people’s heads
The Sierra Nevada Corporation claimed this week that it is ready to begin production on the MEDUSA, a damned scary ray gun that uses the “microwave audio effect” to implant sounds and perhaps even specific messages inside people’s heads. Short for Mob Excess […]

 
Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School use their
laptops during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts
From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America’s classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves.

Scientists used a new type of brain imaging called diffusion spectrum imaging, along with mathematical analysis,
to build a map of the cortical architecture of the human brain, shown here.
The first high-resolution map of the human cortical network reveals that the brain has its own version of Grand Central Station, a central hub that is structurally […]

“Elvis”
There’s nothing like waking up in the morning to a hot cup of coffee and some toast. I usually take that morning quiet time to slather on the butter and pile on the jelly. “Toast Artist” Lennie Payne does something different, however. He creates portrait art from toast.

 
 
In Dubai, they’re doing things big these days. Big hotels, big palm tree islands, big wallets, and very soon, big $281 million fountains. The biggest one in the world, in fact, and it will be large enough to give the famed fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas an inferiority complex.

  
 Blue-Me Vacation Home
The Blue-Me portable vacation home lets you enjoy a pleasant siesta with all the amenities wherever you please.
 

 
Technological developments in the field of software, communication and medicine have prompted and encouraged growth in the field of bionics.
 

They knew the end was near when the Segway Warriors moved into town
Its not so much about insulting your intelligence as it is about insulting you personally. Is nothing sacred anymore?  Join us as we take this week journey into the crusty, the rusty, and the lusty photos that make you say, “Wow, that’s odd!” […]