Imagine spending your life savings on an invention you are sure will someday be successful, even if skeptics think it is impossible. It’s pretty risky right? Well Adam Fuller from Racine, Wisconsin has done this very thing. He has spent his life savings designing an invention he believes in, a vertical wind turbine. Will it [...]

At 2,500 Pounds And 43 Feet
The largest snake the world has ever known — as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car — ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 million years after the demise of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, according to a new discovery published in the journal Nature.

Discovery Could Herald New Era In Fundamental Physics
Cardiff University researchers, who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics, according to an American physicist. MORE PICS BELOW

 
 Long-term Cloud Seeding In Tasmania Shows Promising Increase In Rainfall
A team of researchers at Monash University has released a new analysis of precipitation records from the long-term cloud seeding operation in Tasmania that shows a promising increase in rainfall during periods of seeding.

 
Brain Perceives Optical Illusions As Real Motion
Ever get a little motion sick from an illusion graphic designed to look like it’s moving? A new study suggests that these illusions do more than trick the eye; they may also convince the brain that the graphic is actually moving.

“IM CRAZY FOR HONEY COMB!!!”
Bees have an innate tendency to form social connections. What is the origin of this social behavior?

 
Caneoholics Anonymous
Patent# US 6745785 is a bargain if you like flasks, for it comes ready made with three of them built into it. This Cane is 3.5 feet long and is comprised of a top and a shaft which houses three separate compartments for “medicinal swigs” to fortify one for the long walk to the [...]

Yum! “Doesn’t this picture make you hungry ?” Read the article and ask yourself the same question once you finish reading.
. PETERSBURG, Russia – Two young men – one of them a butcher – have been arrested on suspicion of killing a 16-year-old girl and eating parts of her body, Russian prosecutors said Wednesday.

 Next there will be plug and play organs
“Research is now underway in the US to seek FDA approval for an artificial liver.”

 
Now this is the super advanced guitar hero
Attention guitar heroes: your path to becoming a real guitar player may be on the way. Strap this Maestro contraption onto any guitar, load a music file of the song you’d like to learn into it, and using laser lights, it points out the frets you need to [...]

 
2008 was a good year for gadgets, and we’re hoping that ‘09 will be just as impressive. We’re only a month in so far, but Palm, Dell, Sony and even Amazon have all dropped hints about what the companies have in store. We’ve collected the five big announcements that have us drooling, as well as [...]

 
 Micro Fueler
Beer fueling cars? Cars now competing for beer that you should be guzzling? Yep. And your car won’t get a beer gut or wake up next to Quasimodo the next morning. Don’t sweat it though, we’re talking leftovers. Sierra Nevada has purchased a MicroFueler, which produces ethanol from water, sugar and yeast. As you [...]

 Futurist Speaker, Thomas Frey, DaVinci Institute
Rocky Radar:  Monday’s Night with a Futurist featured Thomas Frey’s thoughts on “The Coming Data Tsunami.” Simply, this coming tidal wave exists because the rate of data creation is about to explode and exceed all solutions to store, transmit, process and extract value from the data. At the core of [...]

See what happens when Springsteen shows his nipples?
 

Check out this neat interactive graphic of Twitter chatter during the Super Bowl. You can move the slider to see what people were tweeting during each minute of the game. Mouseover to find out what part of the country tweeted these words. Select subjects on the left to [...]

 
 Workers inspecting solar panels at an OptiSolar plant in California amid layoffs.
Wind and solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind [...]

Comfy and Calming or Cold and Uncaring?

As corny or cold as it may look, the Hoverit Lounger, an uncomfortable acrylic chair repelled aloft by powerful magnets, piques my rump’s curiosity. Would I be too heavy for its magnets? Would I sway gently up and down on the stabilizing arms or would I find equilibrium and remain relatively [...]