Tops on my home-entertainment wish list is the experience recorder invented by physicists played by Louise Fletcher and Christopher Walken in Douglas Trumball's Brainstorm. Such a gadget is highly fanciful (and likely to be co-opted by the milita...

It's hard to tell what the universe looks like, especially since it takes billions of years for the light from most of it to reach us. It's even more difficult to visualize the 70% of the matter in the universe that's invisible. That...

As NASA readies the Ares 1-X test rocket, a commission of experts appointed by the president says hold everything. NASA should forget about going to the moon for now, and land humans on a nearby asteroid or comet, or one of the two moons of Mars, say...

Increasingly popular head-up displays aren't only for BMWs, Corvettes , Cadillacs, and F-16 jets. Light Blue Optics is making the tech more practical, creating a new projection device that's so small, it'll fit in a car's side mirror....

To effectively gather electricity from wind power, you need a strong breeze going. Along those lines, a company called KiteGen Research figures that wind currents only get strong the higher you go — so why not just go up to 2,600 feet? It kind...

The holidays, as we all know, are a time for giving. The rich, however, give new meaning to the word generosity. Just look at Warren Buffet, who is bequeathing all his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. But what happens if the plaything in...

It may not be the first curved monitor we've seen, but the Ostendo CRVD sure is the most gorgeous. The 43-inch, 2880 x 900 quad-DLP rear projection could be yours for $6,500. It looks less bulky than last year's Alienware model, but that's probably to...

Other than a pile of Wheaties floating in a bowl of Red Bull, the next best thing to waking up with a charge may be the new Boxing Bell Alarm Clock from Banpresto. When the alarm sounds, an announcer begins calling off the ten-count. If you're still...

For Let's Make Robot's robo-wiz "Isotope," anything he sees has the potential to be a 'bot. Example: pondering a simple ladybug magnet on his refrigerator, he decided it'd be better as a larger, motorized magnetic crawler exploring the surface of his...

Some lucky folks in Japan will be able to learn about bike safety using Honda's fancy simulator setup you see above, rather than flying over their handlebars and developing forehead welts the size of golf balls. (Thanks, dad!) While it looks like...