The Mozilla Foundation has announced  that its Firefox browser has been downloaded over 10 million times in the last 31 days. On average, Firefox has been downloaded 4 times per second since its release on November 9th. The Foundation originally estimated 10 million downloads to be reached after 100 days of public availability.

PARIS (Reuters) - German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the Paris auto show on Wednesday, dubbed the H2R, capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour....

So Hideto Tomabechi, one of the guys who helped deprogram members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan, has started selling a ringtone that he says will make your breasts grow larger just by listening to it, something which should make it very popular with the ladies (guys, you’re gonna want to carry some earplugs just in case). Fortunately there are customer testimonials in case you were worried about this thing being legit or not, and Tomabechi says it’s really simple, that he just uses sounds that “make the brain and body move unconsciously. It’s a technique involving subliminal effects,” that’s like “positive brainwashing.” If getting all busty through a ringtone isn’t your bag, he also ringtones on the way that’ll improve your memory, make you more attractive to the opposite sex, cure baldness, and help you give up smoking. Ringtones, man, ringtones.

Proving that people can always find brand new ways to accidentally kill themselves, some guy in England decided that it was a good idea to strap a jet engine to the back of his mother-in-law’s wheelchair. He’s been able to rocket the thing up to sixty miles per hour, but we have this sinking feeling that sooner or later he might find himself in need of a wheelchair of his own...

PC World has an article about the personal robots that are coming our way tomorrow (that is, the royal tomorrow) and the ones that are populating our homes today. They don’t reveal any new robots we haven’t already covered, but there are plenty of neat tidbits in the article, like that an estimated 4 million personal robots will be sold in 2006, and that people have bought over 500,000 Roomba RoboVacs from iRobot...

Lightspace is selling a customizable interactive LED dance floor called the Club Scene that besides turning your club into an electric wonderland can also detect where a person is on top of it in case anyone is up for a little game of Pong.

An audio technology that turns plants and flowers into loudspeakers has been developed in Japan, although some experts remain sceptical about the idea.

The speaker system, designed by Let's Corporation, a technology firm based in Okayama, southern Japan, mimics the way conventional audio speakers work. But it uses flowers instead of the conventionally used cone made of paper, plastic or metal, to generate sound waves...

We weren’t kidding when we said that the SPH-2300, Samsung’s new 3.2 megapixel cameraphone, looked a lot like a regular digital camera. This bad boy is more camera than phone.

If hard-drive maker Maxtor and networking company Linksys have their way, your external hard drive is about to become very external...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Using thought alone and with some electrodes placed on the surface of the brain, four volunteers were able to control a video game, U.S. researchers reported Monday.