Office pranks gotta love them
Pranks aren’t something that only high school kids are entitled to. Once in a while we as adults like to have some fun too. When it comes to pranks there are three kind of pranks that seem to get the most attention : high school pranks, wedding pranks and one of [...]

Hop like a bunny/kangaroo to get better abs
How many ab-exercise devices are there – a million? And how many really give you any benefit over just doing crunches on a mat? Very few, I’d wager, though the AbCoaster, which just came out with a home version of its ab-crunching contraption, is the latest to make [...]

Talking to yourself reaches a whole new level
Scientists say they can now build near-perfect replications of a human being, and that they finally have the technology to bring the inanimate to life.
Scientists are liars. Here are seven robots that reached for “life-like,” and came up with a big handful of your worst nightmares.

Close but no cigar
“TechRadar talks to Windows 7’s Senior User Experience Designer and discovers the interface ideas the Windows 7 team almost, but didn’t put into Windows 7, and the stages various UI features went through to their final form.

 
Perfect for when you take your boss out for Mexican
Throw away your soap, detergent, and personal hygiene, the Japanese have invented odor-free underwear.

Scientists want to create blood from embryonic stem cells 
British scientists are on course to become the first to create synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells, it emerged today.
The ground-breaking project could provide an unlimited supply of blood for emergency transfusions free of the risk of infection.
Because stem cells multiply indefinitely, it would be possible [...]

The sky is near. /Open the attic and you’ll see/ there next to the wasp nest/ rings the blinding light/of the lost moon. 
Has it ever seemed like the moon was so close you could touch it? Russian artists Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov have created a series of artwork titled “Private Moon”, where they give [...]

 
A new study has confirmed what many men and advertisers long believed: driving a flashy car really makes a person more attractive to women.

 IQ inheritance: By comparing the brain scans of twins, scientists discovered that the quality of the fatty tissue that insulates neural wires is largely inherited.
The integrity of neural wiring is a big factor in determining intelligence. It’s also inheritable.

 
‘Ice that burns’ – gas hydrates
In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Government researchers are reporting that these so-called “gas hydrates,” a frozen form of natural gas that bursts into flames [...]