On Tuesday, search giant Google released an experimental tool that tracks the intensity and movement of the influenza virus across the United States by monitoring the number of times that people search the Web using terms related to the disease.

 
 Sky Garden
This 130m skyscraper has been approved for building in London, but unlike “dead” conventional buildings, the Sky Garden includes plans for two three-story gardens to be built inside it.

 
Scientists have warned lonely hearts that speed-dating brings out basic instincts in individuals, who are more likely to make a decision based on looks and sex appeal alone.

 
Air Force One Golf Club 
It takes a golf swing speed of 110 mph to correctly compress the face of a golf club to maximize the smash factor (energy transfer from the swing to the ball). The fact is most golfers swing much slower and therefore aren’t getting the maximum distance. That’s where PowerBilt’s Air Force […]

 
Gone are the days when a picture frame was just meant to display your cherished memories. We have seen different types of digiframes in the past, including the digiframe with built-in photo printer and the singing digiframe.

Slice and quickly dice.

These sharp, quintuple bladed herb scissors make for fine, easy dicing, and would also make a superlative prop for a horror movie about an insane mohel who wants to forcibly convert the goyim and, what the heck, maybe he’s also a spooky ghost.

Feel the Time.

The Sentio is a digital tactile watch for the blind designed by Matthew Wagerfield. The watch has segments that rise 1 mm from the surface of the watch to signify the hour and minute.
The face of sentio exhibits a pair of 7-segment displays that would normally be found on digital alarm clocks, watches […]

 
New-cycle sunspot group 1007 emerges
After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life.

Heat from infrared through ultraviolet wavelengths
 
The key to understanding Earth’s evolution, including how our atmosphere gained oxygen and how volcanoes and earthquakes form, is to look deep, really deep, into the lower mantle—a region some 400 to 1,800 miles (660 to 2,900 kilometers) below the surface.

 
Looks Like Green Rock Candy
Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Don’t Eat Dirt Though!
A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but it’s only one percent of these microbial bugs — the ones that can be grown easily in a lab — that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer agents and other useful drugs.

 A Safer New World For Women
The world’s first radar breast imaging system developed at Bristol University that could revolutionise the way women are scanned for breast cancer, is being trialled at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT)…

Lucky for us there is many different Genres
Listening to your favorite music may be good for your cardiovascular system. Researchers have shown for the first time that the emotions aroused by joyful music have a healthy effect on blood vessel function…

 
I Really Don’t Want To Swallow This One
Scientists have developed a device they call the intelligent pill, or “iPill”. No, it doesn’t make you smarter. This pill is actually designed to release medication to specific areas of the body.
Dutch group Philips, which is one of the world’s biggest hospital equipment makers, state that the pill […]

 (Left) Isia Leviant’s Enigma. Most viewers say the purple rings appear to fill with rapid illusory motion. (Right) A simplified version that the researchers used in the study. Most viewers report illusory motion lengthwise along the gray stripe.
When viewing the famous optical illusion painting Enigma by Isia Leviant, many people claim to see motion within […]

 
 Sarah’s Smash Shack
If you are human, you have probably at some point been so frustrated you felt the need to break something to relieve the tension. Sarah’s Smash Shack , in San Diego, California, provides a service to consumers that allows them to salvage their personal possessions, and break someone else’s.

 
Now here’s a system I can get behind: turning trash into energy via the magic of plasma. Yep, it kills two birds with one stone, and it’s coming soon. The first plasma plant in the country is being planned for St. Lucie County in Florida, where it’ll use 10,000 degree plasma to vaporize 1,500 tons […]

 
 
Put this USB drive in your laptop and you may get some kind of tech surprise in about nine months.

 
The Fueltank 
The Fueltank is a charging device that actually has good looks. It’s from tech company Callpod and it allows you to charge two small electronic devices at the same time without the use of an outlet. Which makes it perfect for travel, when you need to charge your gadgets the most.

 
 Looks like a calculator, works like a credit card
An Australian technology firm has come up with a unique battery power super card, which they believe can fight online fraud.

Even Viruses Can’t Escape Evolution
Evolution, by the very meaning of the word, is generally thought to be a process that slowly unfolds over time, without outside interference.
But now scientists from Rice University are trying to force certain viruses to evolve erratically, in an attempt to kill them. The technique is called “lethal mutagenesis,” and while […]

Find Out What Fido Is Doing When Your Gone With A New SnifTag
Most pet owners have wondered what their pet gets up to when they are out and about or at work. Before I had kids, my wife and I had a dog that would often come home colored pink. To this day we aren’t […]

 
Sneaky Money
Sometimes, you just don’t want people to see your personal photos. And if you’re really, really paranoid about them being found, well, you need to take some drastic measures. Like by hiding them on a MicroSD card inside a hollow nickel.

How Long Will The Islands Maintain?

The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country’s billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country’s first democratically elected president has told the Guardian.

Carry it, don’t bury it.

The same people who make the Solio solar chargers have released a whole new line of bags, laptop sleeves, and gadget cases under the “Tread” brand. Each of the items is made from recycled inner tube tires.
Most of the smaller bags look fairly typical, but the “Transient Attache” and the “Sleeve” […]