An online Monopoly view of Mayfair in London. The game uses Google Maps as a board
Google is to team up with one of the world’s biggest board game manufacturers to create an online version of Monopoly.  The search engine has called on Hasbro to produce the game, which will use Google Maps as a board [...]

Pestival
It’s called ” Pestival A Festival of Insects in Art” and as crazy as it sounds–it works! It’s an examination, in the nicest possible way, of how insects shape our world and how humans shape the world of insects. There is art, music, food, activities, lectures and lots more. (Pics)
 

LAPP
The light art performance photography (LAPP), is a one-shot long time bulb exposure photography, performed additionally with movement of light. (Pics)
 

Solar panels point to the Nevada sky as they generate electricity for use on Nellis Air Force Base
Fair competition or Save the Planet?   That could ultimately be at play as China and the West, long at odds over trade in steel, textiles and auto parts, risk being sucked into a row over protectionism in renewable [...]

Have we reached magnetic polarity escape velocity yet?

Scientists have long speculated about the existence of magnetic materials that have only one pole, instead of both negative and postive poles. Claudio Castelnovo of the University of Oxford thinks that his team has found evidence of the existence of these monopoles in certain rare-materials known as “spin ices”:
At [...]

Work vs. leisure time for older adults
Do we laugh or do we cry?
The latest report from Pew Research Center says the recession is impacting two age groups: young and old adults.
 

The New “Sinless” Search Engine

Muslims will be able to surf the internet without the fear of accidentally encountering what their relegion views as sinful material after a Dutch company launched the world’s first Islamic search engine.
The ImHalal service works like any other search facility until potentially illicit words are entered, when it rates the search [...]

The First YouTube video. Have you ever wondered how the whole YouTube craze began? Here it is! The first YouTube video features Jawed Karim… who’s like the Brian Dunkleman of YouTube founders… standing at a zoo, talking about an elephant. It was posted on April 23rd, 2005.  Don’t expect the revolution to begin immediately…

Optinvent CEO Kayvan Mirza wearing a prototype of the “Clear Vu”
Optinvent S.A., a France-based venture firm, revealed that it is developing the “Clear Vu,” a goggle-type head mounted display (HMD) that can be manufactured at a lower cost than existing products.
The Clear Vu is an optical transmission type HMD, which is based on plano glasses [...]