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Even the best racers and pilots won't have a chance to test out the finest vehicles / aircraft in their profession, so that's where simulators come in. We've rounded up five of the coolest racing and flying simulators, like the TL1 above, for you...

The finals of Microsoft' Imagine Cup, the world's largest student technology competition, are taking place in Sydney this week and StethoCloud, the Melbourne-based home team, is definitely making a good case for Australia's growing tech scene. The competition's theme challenged students to build apps that "help solve the toughest problems" and the Australian team decided to tackle childhood pneumonia, which - despite the fact that it's highly curable when detected early - sadly still kills more children than measles, malaria and HIV combined. The key to survival, says the Australian team, is to detect the illness early, but that's obviously not easy for community health workers or unskilled staff in developing countries.

Apple has withdrawn all its laptop and desktop computers from the EPEAT environmental rating system, including older MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models. According to iFixit, who recently tore down a MacBook Pro and its retina screen, that's likely re...

Getting that corner office promotion could take years, if not longer, but in the meantime, there's always the option of turning your cubicle into an actual home, right? Well, maybe not, but this geek used cardboard to cleverly isolate himself fro...

With so much information, content and so many services now living online, there's a lot of choice -- even for something as simple as where to go to buy a new pair of socks. Oh, and there's a lot of data. As it's evolved and gotten better at making sense of its new Big Data, the Web has become an extraordinary engine for discovering new stuff: News, cat videos, porn, you name it. Naturally, scores of sites are becoming (or are building) recommendation engines to help users wade through the noise, and, dining on Big Data, they get smarter every day. However, as it stands today, the discovery process is pretty fragmented, as recommendation engines tend to be domain-specific. Want to find a good movie? Try Netflix. Want to find a good book? Go to GoodReads, etc. And this fragmentation makes for a crappy user experience. So, frustrated with the fact that there's no one-stop shop for great recommendations on, well, everything, a couple of seniors at MIT have developed, and quietly launched, Tipflare to be that general solution.

It's inevitable, you'll need a haircut sooner or later, that is unless...your plan is to get yourself into the Guinness Book of World Records. These geeks decided to pay tribute to their favorite games, characters, etc. through their hair. Contin...

The decision to invest in an electric vehicle would be much easier to justify if the car in question offered unlimited range. That appears to be the concept behind a Toyohashi University research group's wireless power prototype, which can successful...

Albert Einstein once said that "imagination is more important than knowledge", and that fits right in line with what he thinks about dreaming - keep on sleeping and use your imagination to embrace the world, rather than limiting yourself to what ...

Remember the melted Samsung Galaxy S III that surfaced in an Irish forum a few weeks ago? Samsung said they were looking into it and, along with a third party investigation, have decided it occurred as a result of "external energy" being applied to t...

Virginia's nTelos was part of a big regional carrier push for the iPhone in April. At the time, though, the only real option at the carrier was to spring for one of the company's full-fledged smartphone plans, usually on-contract -- not a bad value a...