The use of biometric scans as a security measure is on the rise. We've recently talked about palm print scan enabled ATMs, and now there is a prototype door handle with a built in finger scanner.

It's here. Finally

Those Chinese iPhone smugglers just don't know how to take a hint, do they? After one guy was caught with 30 iPhones taped to his body , another Chinese smuggler was caught trying to pass customs with 215 iPhones hidden inside empty beer bottles.

Later today a group of high profile billionaires will be officially announcing the formation of a new company called Planetary Resources. Their mission? To mine near-Earth asteroids for whatever resources they may hold

Shut the windows, lock the doors, and prepare to use your children as human shields, because the Germans have gone and developed a quantum rainbow photon gun. That shoots quantum rainbow photons. EVERYBODY RAINBOW PANIC!

Folding an origami Wall-E sounds pretty tricky, but this video makes it look so easy.

I want an app that lets me keep a running total for several items, such as calories consumed, cigarettes smoked, miles ridden, gallons of gas purchased, whatever.

Fancy the new iPad's whopping 2048x1536 Retina display, but wish it could be readable in direct sunlight, like those Pixel Qi netbook displays ?

YouTube's most entertaining gun "expert" FPS Russia makes his living blowing crap up with firearms, but his new fake quadrotor with a machine gun strapped to it is so very badass, we had to share it with you guys.

Building on its bubbly semi-autonomous two-seat EN-V concept vehicle , GM's storming right back with a successor. This time around, the EN-V 2.0 is a little more practical and definitely won't have any chances of tipping over.