Eskilstunarevyn, a Swedish comedy group, played Bach’s Air using … 31 (beer?) bottles! The bottles were filled with different volumes of water in order for each to produce a distinct note.
via Neatorama

Electronics giant Philips is all set to create a sensor bed that keeps a close watch on the health of heart failure patients, a project being funded by the European Union.
One of the aims of the ‘My Heart’ project is to help spot heart problems several days before they become life [...]

Authorities in a remote Russian region at the centre of dozens of reports of UFO sightings have started work on a £3 million centre to attract alien spotters.

The loss or misplacement of credit cards is a common worry. No one wants a thief to find it and go on a spending spree. You may not have to worry about it much longer, thanks to this new product in development. It’s a collaboration by Swiss company AXSionics and Siemens.

Snap this stretchy piece of rubber in two, and it will heal itself back into a stretchy piece of rubber again. The material’s eerie ability to ‘heal’ itself means that it can broken, stuck and stretched time and time again.

This little town in the deep south doesn’t get much attention, but really is the center of thought for the whole aerspace industry.