Kevin Alderman, aka Stroker Serptentine, is one of the major forces behind the sexual frontier of Second Life. Interview by Regina Lynn.

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Ether is used for the first time to anesthetize a patient before surgery.

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Long winters make cyclists do crazy things. Sometime in early January, I decided to take a shot at a world record riding a streamlined human powered vehicle — a reclining bicycle with a carbon fiber shell. I’ll be aiming for the flying 200m World Record, which is currently held by Canadian rider Sa

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When Apple’s iPhone gatecrashed CES two months ago, it forced the cellular industry’s hand. At Florida’s CTIA Wireless 2007 show this week, it forced them to fold. Buzz, if nothing else, has won the first round.

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Why build high rises at all? Ten years from now, who is going to be working in them? Or living in them? Haven’t you people heard? Technology has made the city a relic, a thing of the past.

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An online playground trains librarians in all the latest webmonkey tools, and spreads across the globe.

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Viewers flock to websites to devour Hollywood’s new and improved advertisements.

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What would Voltaire have thought? I.M. Pei’s glass pyramids open in the courtyard of the Louvre, and Parisians are appalled.

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All but abandoned twenty years ago, nuclear energy is again hot news. But while new fission reactors vie with wind turbines and biofuels to raise the old NIMBY hackles, some look to a future where atoms are spliced, not split.

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Geeks love April Fool’s Day. Once a year, we get to set our inner jerk free by taking advantage of our non-geek friends’ and coworkers’ less-than-firm grasp on technology.

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