“People who like shopping as a leisure activity like to be inside a cornucopia of products,” Butler says. “They like to be moving through merchandise and noticing stuff that interests them. “That’s very different from the kind of shopping that Amazon .com and eBay have popularized, where the process usually starts by typing a term such as “digital camera” into a search box and getting a long list of results.

Neuroscience research into how we think and what we’re thinking is advancing at a stunning rate, making it possible for the first time in human history to peer directly into the brain to read out the physical make-up of our thoughts, some would say to read our minds.

It knows its location, can talk to other cars and can tell the future. Are we entering the era of truly automated cars? The Collision Warning System (CWS) is the brainchild of the Reposit project, and they recently fired up a fully working prototype of their system.

The prototype can find its position using GPS, and find the position, speed and trajectory of neighbouring and oncoming traffic using an emerging car communication protocol called Vehicle2Vehicle (V2V).

Nanotechnology is a broad term that covers many areas of science, research and technology. In its most basic form, it can be described as working with things that are small. Things so tiny that they can’t be seen with standard microscopes. The same stuff that has always been there, but we just couldn’t see it. The building blocks of nature, atoms and molecules. Nano-technology involves understanding matter at the “nano” scale.

U.S. government health officials warned dieters and body builders Friday to immediately stop using the Canadian-made supplement Hydroxycut, linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death.