It rose from humble beginnings to become an essential piece of computer hardware. But as the computer mouse turns 40, there are signs that it could finally be heading for the big electronic scrapheap in the sky. When Doug Engelbart’s team at the Stanford Research Institute designed a computer controller encased in a carved-out wooden block, with [...]

Environment is a very popular issue nowadays so environment-friendly houses are finally becoming interesting. Domespace invented their semi-spherical houses over 30 years ago but only a few of them have been purchased and only around France, especially in Brittany, where the company is based. The Domespace house plans were designed to optimize warmth by natural means, [...]

Fancy breakfast in bed? Robots could soon be taking over kitchens up and down the country if the impressive Motoman is anything to go by. The industrial robot expertly flipped and cooked a Japanese pancake on a hotplate during a demonstration at an exhibition in Osaka. Built by engineers from the Japanese giant Yaskawa Electric, the SDA10 [...]

The Lucid Dream Machine, gives you the ability to take control of the action in your dreams without waking up, it’s like your awake inside your dreams and fully aware of the fact that your actually dreaming. The machine works by flashing two red LEDs in your closed eyelids while your sleeping, these make your eyes [...]

In 1963 Alan Kaye is the first one who describes the Kaye effect. The Kaye effect relates to the complicated liquids. This phenomenon happens in the pouring of the liquids into any surface. Then it merges some kind of stream of this liquid. The kaye effect happens mostly in the pouring of the liquids such [...]

With the passage of time, people appreciate the painting of the body. Then it becomes an art. It is the art of body painting. Body painting is approved as an actual art since 1960’s. The traditional kind of body painting is tattoo. It is an old type. It is used for religious purposes or as [...]

His name is Harvey and he’s a surfer of the highest pedigree. After all, it’s not everyone who can balance with four feet on the board at once - let alone use his tail as a rudder. The three-year-old labrador is the pet of Scott Pearson and his 16-year-old son James, both keen surfers. He regularly joins them [...]

The tension was so thick at Britain’s Supreme Cat Show yesterday you could hear it in the air … “ZZZZZZZZZZ.” Everywhere you turned, there were cats doing what cats do best. Sleeping. Some were tucked up in their own beds with downy duvets and embroidered pillows. Big-time action here was the stretch of a paw. Usually [...]

Men in Japan are quickly latching on to a new trend – bras for the boys. A Japanese lingerie retailer that sells underwear for cross-dressing men has found that bras have become one of its most popular items. Since launching two weeks ago on Rakuten, a major Japanese web shopping mall, the Wishroom shop has sold over [...]

Shocked vets have delivered a kitten with two faces. The kitten can only eat with one of its mouths, due to a cleft palate - but it meows simultaneously through both. The only member of an otherwise normal litter of three, it is said to be doing well. It was born in the vet’s surgery after its mother [...]