While a strict ban on in-flight cellphone use remains law in the U.S., in other countries they are starting to loosen up their rules. Virgin Atlantic is the latest carrier to allow phone use during flight, and passengers flying the New York to London route can now make calls from their personal phones.

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There are two excellent reasons to grow plants out of your computer. One, it’s pretty. Two, it’s nutritious. Three, the waste heat actually helps the plants grow, and four, you’re helping to offset the massive amounts of lifecycle carbon that your computer is responsible for.

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The 30th annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is going on right now in Texas, and it looks like Microsoft is there in force. It’s showing off five new concepts in human computer interaction, from body part projection to sound wave control to motion-capturing antennas made of people.

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Britain’s Ariel Motor Company already stunned the performance car world with their embarrassingly quick Atom supercar, and now they have bottled that experience so you can bring it into your living room, with what could be the most awesome car racing simulator yet.

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I hope you’ve got 1.21 jiggawatts worth of “Great Scott!” all lined up and ready to go, because a Lego* jury is officially pondering the release of a Back to the Future themed DeLorean set.

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The folks at MIT’s Media Lab are teaching a robotic arm to spin material into webs, just like a spider would. Why? It’s either so robot armies could easily cocoon captured humans a few years from now, or maybe so robots could spin flexible structures that could be attached to existing buildings. Why would we want that? Keep reading.

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To keep all of the ones and zeros in line when transmitting digital audio you need a really accurate clock, and no clock is more accurate than an atomic one. So a company called Antelope Audio is introducing the first digital preamp for high-end audio systems that uses an atomic ticker.

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Stop for a second and think about some of your most visited websites. Facebook, Google, Twitter and YouTube are probably on that list. Now imagine what those websites would look like as dresses. They’d look a lot like these designs by Victor Faretina.

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Attempting to catch up with Hulu Plus’ and Netflix’s streaming services, Amazon Prime Instant Video, a video streaming service, boasts that it has “more than 17,000 movies and television shows.” This is technically true, but the everyday consumer might see it a little differently.

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Looking at cool concept designs for super yachts may be fun, but nothing beats the real thing. It took five years and $ 15 million dollars, but the ultimate seafaring vessel that looks like a spacecraft is finally here.

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