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‘Whacky’ ideas can also make you ponder

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If you dismiss ideas such as a roller-coaster ride curing asthma — or that wearing socks outside of your shoes could help prevent you from slipping on ice, or that…

Tug ‘O’ war for Internet freedom

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Who will own the Internet? The question is an oxymoron since no one owns cyberspace. Online activists allege the scene could change if Google and Verizon have their way Link…

Instant Google

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The new search could play havoc with an advertisers Google Quality Score It will take a couple days before you see Google Instant but in this age of fast food,…

Pranav Mistry: Digital dreamer

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The youthful inventor of the “Sixth Sense” device has foreign governments and film-makers interested in his technology that binds the digital and the physical worlds. Twenty-nine-year-old Pranav Mistry may be…

Pads to soften Indian metro rail noise

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The Metro rail project of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to use elastomeric pads to control the noise levels of running trains. Mumbai is a city with a…

Google gives your ‘important’ email priority

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With loads of spam and other unimportant emails cluttering your inbox, you may have wondered at times if you could, perhaps, create a hierarchy of emails — listing them by…

Twitter users become newspaper publishers

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It’s primarily catching the fancy of Gen X and Y. Hundreds of those with Twitter users are now becoming online publishers — creating their own newspapers with either ‘The Twitter…