Hand-sewn costumes, homemade popcorn balls, and bobbing for apples are all so last millennium. It's time to get with the high-tech late Aughts, our fair readers, especially since Halloween is upon us. If you still haven't settled on a costume, or done anything ghoul-related, then take a look at ...

by Sara Faye Lieber on Oct 30th 2009 12:42PM

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Share It's another Saturday night and you ain't got nobody. But, wait. Here comes a friend request from that shy one you used to French kiss in the back of the bus in junior high. The former wallflower is a doctor now. A hot doctor. A single, hot doctor. You message back. Your Saturday night just ...

by Sara Faye Lieber on Oct 19th 2009 12:03PM

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In 1957, the USSR got the first satellite into space with Sputnik, and the race was on to get the first anything else up into orbit. As U.S. rockets kept exploding, experts involved were looking for a way to lighten the load of the first human mission. Men were heavier than women, which suddenly ...

by Sara Faye Lieber on Oct 14th 2009 12:30PM

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digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/tech-and-design-get-together-at-areawares-the-drop-2012'; The name 'The Drop' comes from a date in the Mayan calendar that was expected to bring a shift from one phase of life to another, a window in time in which new things could begin to take ...

by Sara Faye Lieber on Oct 13th 2009 12:21PM

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The people of Conflux -- an annual art and technology festival held in New York City in September -- are obsessed with "psycho dynamism," or the art and science of fusing the virtual world with the real world, like doing virtual things in physical space (for example, organizing the first ever ...

by Sara Faye Lieber on Sep 25th 2009 1:16PM

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