Quoted: TED Talks <a href="/speakers/view/id/129" target="_blank">Stephen Petranek</a> reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day (and the beginning of happy hour): How might the world end? He lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle accelerator gone wild?

Quoted: On September 5, the Omron Corporation unveiled smile recognition software that promises to improve the ability of machines to read human emotions.

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Quoted: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

This is a free drum machine emulator, which would be kind of lame, but it is free, so its not too shabby.
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Quoted:DrumStation is a virtual drum computer and groove studio for your PC. It is roughly based on the legendary Roland TR-909 drummachine. DrumStation makes it possible to create beats in CD quality without any further knowledge and in no time.

Digital penises flew towards the first Second Life-made millionare. Hilarity and ridiculousness ensues.

Quoted: Anshe Chung started her illustrious Second Life career as a virtual prostitute.

Quoted: Created by Japan-based design agency Information Architects, it's a mash-up of the most used websites from last year and what to expect from next. As the agency's site says, "It's totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at.

Anyone looking for 2Gb SD cards- this looks like the way to go.

PS: this goes in the Wii

Quoted: TIME Magazine presents the best inventions and innovators of 2006.

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Lots of cool stuff in here, ill have to look into it more.

Quoted: A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that it’s the best way to treat America’s leading cause of accidental death: traumatic brain injury

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