Snaggle-toothed hockey players and sugar lovers may soon rejoice as Canadian scientists said they have created the first device able to re-grow teeth and bones.The researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton filed patents earlier this month in the United States for the tool based on low-intensity pulsed ultrasound technology after testing it on a dozen dental patients in Canada.
"Right now, we plan to use it to fix fractured or diseased teeth, as well as asymmetric jawbones, but it may also help hockey players or children who had their tooth knocked out," Jie Chen, an engineering professor and nano-circuit design expert, told AFP.
Chen helped create the tiny ultrasound machine that gently massages gums and stimulates tooth growth from the root once inserted into a person's mouth, mounted on braces or a removable plastic crown.
The wireless device, smaller than a pea, must be activated for 20 minutes each day for four months to stimulate growth, he said.
It can also stimulate jawbone growth to fix a person's crooked smile and may eventually allow people to grow taller by stimulating bone growth, Chen said.
Ok, we've already well established years ago that I am a card carrying geek. No argument. So when I hear of a movie described as a "postapocalyptic vampire western", how on earth can I help but be at least a little intrigued?
This Yoda backpack is a surefire chick (or dude, take your pick) magnet. 
Joe Malia, a second year student at the Royal College of Art in London created this hoodie for "computer obsessives." Using one of these would be infinitely cooler than merely deploying one of those polarized sheets of plastic that stop people from reading your laptop screen over your shoulder. Bonus: renders your screen legible in direct sunlight (if you're willing to be seen in this outfit in broad daylight, that is). 
These Star Wars Transformers hint at a tantalizing universe where the Millennium Falcon is actually the hero of the movies, turning itself into a pair of pro-Rebellion mecha warriors. 
French researchers have found some 
While looking for methods to deter the pigeons that roost outside my bedroom window, I stumbled upon the Bird Chase Laser. The three "steady beams of red light" is sure to 
But Microsoft did it anyway. They killed the File menu, along with all the other menus. They added a giant, weird circular target up in the corner. They actually use part of the title bar as a menu sometimes. They even changed the default font in all the apps. What's amazing is not just that it works, but that it works so well.
(for my friend Ryan when he wins the lottery - oed3)
My friends and i always turn each other on to music. i wanted to automate the process of sharing what was in our collections and what we are listening to without having to do the work of typing it in.
Here's a short video of kids throwing a large salad bowl of liquid nitrogen into a small hotel swimming pool -- it's a gorgeous fog effect, and all the cooler for happening in a totally normal hotel. 
xBlocks is a convergence between video games & sculpture -- liberating play from the screen. It is a mixed reality installation inspired by traditional platform games of the late 1980s such as Super Mario Brothers or Pitfall. Using standard game controllers, two opposing players must help their characters navigate in and around a three dimensional maze. The real challenge comes, not from traditional game mechanics but rather from moving with your character as he sprints around corners and jumps between the installation's two play surfaces. 
According to the good folks over at 
Can we ever get anough of the whole Zombie genre? Apparently not. Paramount pictures has just bought the rights to a novel that hasn't even been published yet called "World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War" Yeah... ok... that's a cool title. But another zombie movie?
Flock has an integrated blogging tool, with integrated tagging, that works with most major blogging platforms. Users can switch between preview and html views. Search via the top right drop down (same location as Firefox) is set to Yahoo as a default, and an be changed to Google, Technorati, Wink, etc. (no support for MSN or Live.com search though). Beginning to type in a search query brings up a pop up box that shows recent bookmarked sites, visited sites and search results from the default search engine. 
This iPod dock and speakers built into a bumwad dispenser isn't as weird as it seems at first blush -- lots of us have a radio in the bathroom; this is a way of listening to your iPod without sacrificing your limited counterspace to an electronics footprint. 
Some of the concept art for the 1998 incarnation of Tim Burton's Superman project has surfaced 
In 1987, Canadian photographer Robin Collyer began documenting houses that aren't houses at all – they're architecturally-disguised electrical substations, complete with windows, blinds, and bourgeois landscaping. "During the 1950s and 1960s," Collyer explains in a recent issue of Cabinet Magazine, "the Hydro-Electric public utilities in the metropolitan region of Toronto built structures known as 'Bungalow-Style Substations.' These stations, which have transforming and switching functions, were constructed in a manner that mimics the style and character of the different neighborhoods."
