Baby Laugh-a-Lot – Tickle Me Elmo meets the Bride of Chuckie!
Sometimes its hard to describe why a video is important. Some of these may insult your intelligence. Some may insult your neighbors. But as long as someone is insulted, we’re okay with that.
 

 
 
The Earth is in the midst of the sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals, with nearly 50 percent of all species disappearing, scientists say.

For centuries man has had a uniquely close relationship with dogs – as a working animal, for security and, perhaps most importantly, for companionship. Now, dogs are taking on a new role – they are helping in the hunt for genetic mutations that lead to diseases in humans.

 Imaging a distant galaxy using a gravitational lens.
By cleverly unraveling the workings of a natural cosmic lens, astronomers have gained a rare glimpse of the violent assembly of a young galaxy in the early Universe. Their new picture suggests that the galaxy has collided with another, feeding a supermassive black hole and triggering a tremendous [...]

The World’s most relaxing room.
Psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman has designed and constructed a large-scale multi-media space that aims to calm even the most stressed out of minds.

Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free.

Human-Controlled Sunset
 There’s nothing quite like a beautiful sunrise or sunset. It completely changes the way the world looks, if but for a few minutes, and is one of those things that just makes you take pause and appreciate everything around you. Pity that it’s so short and always happens when you’re either in bed or [...]

 The Stylish New iBangle
 It might take a few years (or decades) for this iBangle design concept to end up on your wrist, but for the time being, we can stare in astonishment at its ambitious design. You see that blue inner band? Push a tiny button on the side and it fills with air, expanding [...]

 
 Robot Cafe At Your Service
Too lazy to make yourself a cup of coffee? Way too lazy to hoof it to your local Starbucks to buy a cup of coffee? Man, you’re lazy. Luckily for you, we live in an increasingly robot-serviced culture. Just take a look at CAFERO, the coffee-serving robot!

Plant-bot
 If your poor, mistreated plant had legs, it would walk itself in front of the sun and out from the dank corner that it sits, slowly drying up and dying. Unfortunately for your plant, evolution hasn’t decided that legs are a priority for plants. Fortunately for it, however, we live in the age of robots, [...]

 
 Titan 80-300 Cubed Microscope
The Hubble telescope has a competitor. It’s not a telescope, but a microscope. The competition isn’t looking for stars and galaxies, but seeking atomic levels instead. McMaster University Canada has installed the world’s most powerful electron microscope at its Center for Electron Microscopy. Built in the Netherlands, the Titan 80-300 Cubed microscope [...]

 
Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 
Do you create? Are you an inventor?  Do you build things? Do you work on your own car? If you are any of the above than you’ve got to check out Club Workshop!  Denver’s first open access workshop club, featuring equipment, facilities and training for a wide variety of [...]

For a year, we’ve listened to analysts passionately explain how online ad spending will power through any broader economic and advertising weakness. Eyeballs are moving online, this story went (goes), ad dollars will follow. Online advertising is accountable. Online advertising is the future. Blah, blah, blah.

 
Tokujin Yoshioka’s chair made from growing natural crystals will headline the exhibition Second Nature opening on the 17th in Tokyo this month. The Venus chair builds on his earlier work such as Honey-pop (2001) which used a honeycombed paper structure to obtain it’s strength and the Pane chair (2006) made of a translucent spongy material [...]

 
This device lets surgeons attach small anchors to tissue inside a beating heart by compensating for the heart’s movement. 
Fixing the heart is hard. Certain procedures have to be performed on a stationary organ, so the heart is stopped and the patient put on a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. But stopping the heart increases the risk of [...]