Japanese entertainment giant Sony has patented an idea for transmitting data directly into the brain, with the goal of enabling a person to see movies and play video games in which they smell, taste and perhaps even feel things.

Give your iPod Nano 200gb of storage.

Avoiding eating in order to improve your appearance is part of being a woman, and it's natural for a woman to devote all of her time to achieving a figure pleasing to the male eye. While there are many ways to get hot, one of the simplest, fastest, and most effective is through self-starvation. However, anorexia, like all things, is best used in moderation. For example, you should never get so thin that you lose your tits.

Google is making a bid to build a San Francisco-wide free wifi network, according to company officials. The company today filed documents in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's request for information for the city wide network.

baby_tortoise.jpgA woman holds a baby tortoise with two heads in Havana September 27, 2005. The tortoise was found some days ago on a river bank at the city forest. According to scientists of the local aquarium who inspected the animal, it seems to be perfectly healthy.

A fugitive who escaped from prison in Hungary was caught when he unwittingly went out on a date with a policeman. The unidentified man, sentenced for robbery and fraud, had posted an ad with his own photo in an online dating website.

One man was shot to death and another wounded after they allegedly attempted a carjacking against two undercover FBI agents.

1500candle.jpgThe record has been set for the world's brightest flashlight. This is the brightest flashlight available, producing 15,000,000 candlepower (the equivalent of 150 60-watt bulbs), 6x as bright as the lighthouse at Montauk Point, New York, and is visible more than six miles away.

Robert Braver, an Oklahoma ISP owner who is a long time activist against both spam and junk faxes, received a default judgment of over $10 million against high profile spammer Robert Soloway and his company Newport Internet Marketing. Soloway has frequently been cited as one of the ten largest spammers in the world.

Posted October 2, 2005