Halo 4 is the latest iteration in the long running gaming series that puts players in the shoes of the Master Chief, a soldier capable of utilising a wide arsenal of weapons and devices during his quest to rid the universe of the evil Covenant and the dangerous Flood.

In the past four years, 11 feet -- all in running shoes -- have washed up in Vancouver, Canada. No other body parts have been found.

New technology involving wireless electrodes gives humans the ability to manipulate objects with brain signals.

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.

Reverse the polarity on sneaker piracy and globalization, and you get something like Chinese sneakers hacked into hover shoes. Video after the jump.

The bicycle rider always wants a car, Kevin Kelly reminds us in What Technology Wants. But the car won't make him happier�and if what technology wants is autonomy, it may be advised against the pursuit of happiness.

Newsweek gives Julian Assange's "mansion arrest" the Martha Stewart treatment.

A great idea for getting around in the snow, for which Fritz Rice of Seattle's Dutch Bicycle Co. generously credits fixie hipsters.

The coats of arms of famous scientists�some inherited, some invented by their famous holders�have something to tell us about change and continuity in the symbolism of power and authority.

Along with advances in telegraphy, weaponry, and medicine, the Civil War seems to have touched off a revolution in box-making.