Thousands of cars shooting around in an endless loop: just because it looks like dystopia doesn't mean it's not delightful.

German robotics company Festo offers a postfuturist menagerie: autonomous kites, silver air-jellyfish and flying robo-penguins.

Acid or base? When you're a coke can, it doesn't matter�you sizzle either way.

Thrash metal and testosterone-raked commands give way to twee chimes and happy laughs in the latest trailer for Atari's whimsical casual game, The Undergarden.

"We speak on the phone, but where is your body?" Suzanne Fellini sings in "Love On the Phone." You can't push on a string; you can't embrace over a wire. But can the wire embrace us?

A simple, elegant reboot makes it easy to fill a room with daylight.

Pelted with snow, NASA's probe captured images of the very active comet Hartley 2 on its November 4 flyby.

University of Newcastle researchers may have come up with a biotechnology answer to the roadway printer I posted about yesterday: bacteria modified to colonize cracks in concrete and fix ruined buildings and crumbling roadways.

3-D printing is going viral. With 3-D fabrication technology at for the desktop, for LEGOs, and for nanoscale materials, it was only a matter of time before the paradigm found its way into space�and corporate science fiction. But this promising technology still has to prove itself in terrestrial infrastructure first.

Is it play? Turf-defending aggression? Or the dysfunctional behavior of captive animals?