Star Trek inspired power?
There’s a growing chorus of calls to send astronauts to Mars rather than the moon, but critics point out that such trips would be long and gruelling, taking about six months to reach the Red Planet. But now, researchers are testing a powerful new ion engine that could one day shorten the [...]

Now thats some major memory
Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products, announced the launch of the world’s first 256GB USB flash drive, the Kingston Technology DataTraveler 300.

Eww I hope thats not what I think it is floating in the tub
Have you always wanted to re-enact Caddyshack’s iconic poop-in-the-pool scene in the privacy of your own home? I know I have, and now you can too – thanks to the most bizarre bath bomb anyone’s ever seen. One wonders what the thought [...]

Making measurement cool
Well, that took long enough. Designers Shay Shafranek and Oded Webman have cooked up an electronic ruler concept that doesn’t do away with that classic wood aesthetic. On the outside, at least. It’s actually a wooden sheath that covers the circuitry inside.

YouTube’s latest feel-good viral video is JK’s Wedding Entrance Dance.  I don’t know who Jill and Kevin are, but I love them.
 

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” — Albert Einstein
I think we can all agree that Albert Einstein was a pretty smart guy and came up with some great ideas and concepts, but his quote above is also great advice to all of us in business. It’s [...]

Handerpants
Handerpants, underwear for your hands. Don’t let your hands go commando again. Stupidest thing ever posted on this site? Nope… that would be the video infomercial about the Handerpants.  (Video after the break)
 

The galaxy NGC-1097 with a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars at its center
Nasa has found a monster black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun feeding off gas, dust and stars at the centre of a galaxy 50 million light-years away.