Today, Compact Fluorescents–Tomorrow, LED Bulbs? – “What’s the story with LED light bulbs that are reputed to be even more energy-efficient than compact fluorescents?”

Audi’s Flying Car – “Audi is making strides towards this time of skyways and flying cars with their Calamaro concept…”

Dimming down: How the brainpower of today’s 14-year-olds has slipped ‘radically’ in just one generation – “Bright teenagers are a disappearing breed, an alarming new study has revealed. The intellectual ability of the country’s cleverest youngsters has declined radically, almost certainly due to the rise of TV and computer games and over-testing in schools…”

Is surfing the Internet altering your brain? – “The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order…”

One man’s garbage becomes another’s power plant – “Decades’ worth of household trash, construction waste and assorted refuse buried in the landfill are providing electricity to thousands of homes…”

Microsoft launches Windows Azure – “Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft’s own data centers…”

How plastics promise a computing revolution – “Scientists are now able to synthesise plastics that conduct electricity and others that behave as semiconductors like silicon. Thought the silicon revolution was earth shattering? Well, according to some pundits, you ain’t seen nothing yet…”

French doctor unveils artificial heart – “Three decades after the world’s first human heart transplant, this revolutionary life-size mixture of animal tissue, titanium and missile technology that its inventor says perfectly replicates the human organ could save the lives of thousands of heart patients, many of whom die while waiting for a heart donation…”

Spinoffs Expected From Suborbital Vehicle Work – “The development of commercial suborbital space vehicles should lead eventually to businesses such as commercial hypersonic point-to-point air travel and low-cost launches to low Earth orbit, according to spaceship builders, venture capitalists and other entrepreneurs who gathered here October 22-23 to take part in the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight…”

Seven of the greatest scientific hoaxes – “This got me thinking about other great scientific hoaxes in the past. After doing a bit of digging, I was amazed by how many there were – and at the variety and creativity of the hoaxes. Here are a few of the best…”

CNC machining guns – “[Justin’s] been CNC milling his own gun parts for quite a while. We’ve been a fan of his work simply because of the technical challenge that this sort of milling presents. Even if you’re anti-gun, you should check out the work he’s been turning out…”

6 “Non-Lethal” Weapons That’ll Make You Wish You Were Dead – “So with the whole meltdown of the financial system, you’re probably thinking about rioting soon. But while you gather up your bottles and stones and get ready to face down The Man, there’s something you should know…”

The possibilities of a ‘portable eye’ – “When Peter Alan Smith pulls out his phone in a crowded Back Bay restaurant, there’s no clue that his Nokia is by far the most expensive mobile phone in the entire place. He has about $2,400 in software loaded onto the $600 device…”

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