Caskets and cremation are old hat — in today’s world members of the Body Worlds donor program have signed over plastination rights to their body upon death, which means the corpse will likely enjoy a long shelf life as bodily fluids are replaced with plastic.

Motorola, now B-list handset manufacturer that once gave us the all-powerful Razor, doesn’t want to be left off the touchscreen handset gravy train. For that reason, Motorola has created the Blaze, a smart-looking little handset, all decked out in red, for all the CDMA fans over at Verizon.

Unicycle’s require balance and coordination.  Monocycle’s require agility and balance.   Like the Unicycle there is one wheel and one seat, but there the similarity ends.  Amazingly enough a new type of pedaled riding vehicle has been invented for those that were bored with only the trillion or so types of bicycles and unicycles available.

Mercedes Benz has announced the official end of their gas car manufacturing within seven years. That’s right, Mercedes Benz, maker of some of the world’s best, most reliable cars, has declared they will move their automobile focus away from the fossil fuel powered automobile.

Blizzard’s officially got most PC gamers in its thrall by announcing Diablo III.

Google inked a deal with “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlance in what might be a big gamble on the search engine’s side.

Real Networks launched its new Rhapsody MP3 store, free from digital rights management (DRM).

After much procrastination, the Federal Communications Commission has finally opened the floor for discussion into the embedded ad debate. Several public interest groups and congress members have been pressuring the company to address concerns with placing ads in programs. Although the main purpose behind the hearings will be more investigation and questioning, there is a possibility that it will impact in children’s programming more immediately.

Microsoft recently purchased the Powerset, a search engine company based in Silicon Valley that can processes natural-language questions and produces a list of answers based on Wikipedia articles. After their recent attempts to acquire Yahoo’s search engine, perhaps it’s trying to use this technology to upgrade Live.com

Sounding more like a character from a play than an electric car, Subaru is about to introduce a new electric prototype at the G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan.  This little electric plug in will be bigger than many of the electric cars previewed so far that are only two seaters.

Windows 7, the replacement to the disastrous Windows Vista, is coming. It’s just a matter of when, which is a question that came closer to being answered over the last week with Microsoft finally giving a hint over the release date.

NBC is broadcasting the Olympics live online, and thrilling online sports fans everywhere.

A new recognition system developed by the University of Bristol is helping researchers to study African penguins without tagging them. The system has a 98 percent success rate in individually identifying 20,000 penguins over the course of a month. The technology could even be expanded to observe other endangered species.

Google recently revealed a new feature that enables you to play YouTube videos, Picasa albums, and multimedia content from your computer on any device with Universal Plug-and-Play. No hardware installation is necessary. Simply add the Google Media Server gadget to your Google Desktop and you’re ready to go.

You know what really grinds my gears? Cell phone carriers don’t reveal what phones they will be hosting until just about the time those phones are scheduled to be hitting shelves. Luckily, as America is pretty much last to catch almost every decent handset, we can occasionally get some help from our buddies across the pond.

Love him or hate him, Bill Gates has been one of the most important men in the technological age of the past thirty years. Without him, and Microsoft, the company he founded with Paul Allen in 1975, the world would be a very different place today, and personal computing may never have become the mainstream force for change it now is.

In a move that opened the floodgates of the internet to domain squatters and could possibly create domain squatting hell (or, rather, more domain squatting hell) for consumers, ICANN opened up TLD registrations. What this means for the internet is that for the cost of a few thousand dollars, nefarious squatters (and legitimate business also, of course) can claim a new domain as their own. Any new domain.