“Hi, my name is Kermitt Quirk and I created Tringo, a game within the virtual game, Second Life.”

Kermitt Quirk is the avatar New Zealander Nathan Keir uses when playing the online game Second Life.
Within the game, players can create other games. Nathan’s game, Tringo, is described as a cross between “Tetris” and “Bingo” and became […]

Nothing exciting about most building roofs, which are made of ballast and tar.
But a change is slowly gaining traction around the world: first championed in Germany, “green roofs” are growing in popularity with China launching a nationwide drive last month to make energy-saving buildings that help ease fuel shortages and reduce greenhouse gases.

This trend toward […]

You may not be reading this for too long. Seems like the Blog may be becoming passé, to be replaced by the “Vlog.” According to Business 2.0, all you need is an Apple Video iPod and you can have your own Video Log, aka vlog.
Now, that can’t be right. The Video iPod is just a […]

US Military researchers are conducting experiments that connect a “Brainport” (a device that gives Army Rangers 360-degree unobstructed vision at night and allow Navy SEALs to sense sonar in their heads while maintaining normal vision underwater) to the human wearer’s… tongue.
From Netscape News:
A narrow strip of red plastic connects the Brain Port to the tongue […]

First we have the 3mm thin 16GB PQI Card Drive, then the Apple Integrated Sensing Display (basically a LCD monitor that can also take your picture), and now researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an artificial insect eye that could be used in ultra-thin cameras.
Similar to a bee’s eye, the dome-shaped structure […]