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The recent cold weather in South Korea is reportedly responsible for the recent spike in sales of CJ Corporation’s snack sausages – they are selling like hot cakes, but not because people are hungry. The electrostatic properties of the meaty edibles allow them to be used as a stylus....

An African American HP user made an unusual discovery, the face tracking technology that came with his new notebook didn’t recognize his face. It might have been put down to a malfunction, but for the fact that it worked very well for Desi’s white co-worker Wanda. Desi explains in...

ShareThe X-Flex wallpaper system, which may see service in Iraq and Afghanistan, offers a new way to protect existing construction from explosions. From PopSci: X-Flex bonds so tightly, it helps walls keep their shape after blast waves. Two layers are strong enough to stop a blunt object, like a...

Development is underway at the University of Missouri of a nuclear battery that is said to hold a million times more charge than a standard battery....

The Shinoda Laboratory at Japan's prestigious Tokyo University has been experimenting with touchable holography....

The brilliant minds at The Evolution Control Committee have done it again: now they’ve invented a rear-projected infra-red-activated faux-touchscreen mashup controller… hacked from the Nintendo Wiimote. As if the touchscreen interface wasn’t impressive enough, check out the insanely overloaded Ableton Live running on it… it’s the secret sauce that...

Bang & Olufsen has created a new noise-canceling car audio system specifically for convertibles. Ambient noise is detected by way of a dashboard-mounted microphone and a digital processor ensures that the system compensates for road noise....