We're still not really sure what a "creative technology studio" is, but it sure seems like a damn fun place to work. Apparently your job at one, like Chaotic Moon, is to just think of "awesome" ideas ...

Some of humanity’s greatest inventions were created by accident. Corn Flakes were originally meant to be a dough made from boiled wheat, Silly Putty was supposed to be an artificial rubber, and Silly ...

“Silly string,” a colorful aerosol foam that children spray on each other, is not so silly after all, at least not in Los Angeles. The city council voted Tuesday to ban the use of the string-like ...

Jeff Severns Guntzel, who recently quit his position as a staff writer at the Minneapolis alt-weekly City Pages, blogs from the RNC protests in Minneapolis: . . . Soon there was another advance, this ...

The Tricks of the Trade weblog says Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan are using Silly String to detect bomb tripwires in dark rooms: They spray the Silly String into the room, and the brightly-colored ...

Know what the latest must-have product is in Japan? While it looks like they’ve gone mad and are shaving their wrists, they’re actually saving the planet by switching off the air-con, and cooling down ...