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When it comes to futuristic technology buildings are one of the most impressive mediums of displaying this type of technology. Today we're checking out a new bionic material that allows buildings to open and close like flowers that bloom. Flectofin is a material based upon the Bird of Paradise flower. The material has been around for approximately a year and just received the first ever Gips-Schüle Research Prize.

Going to the gym is hard work...if it was easy then more people would do it regularly, but for those with the determination, Fitwall is determined to make working out more efficient.

Not every child has the opportunity to have an extended education but online crowd funding project, Wishbone, is giving the opportunity of extended education to more  children than before. So far Wishbone, the education crowd funding project, has provided academic summer camps and after-school program opportunities for eighty children who may not otherwise have received such an option. Wishbone currently ...

Tumblr is making headlines after rebuilding their search tool to result in a more powerful search engine and to filter NSFW tags too. This announcement comes just as Tumblr passes the 65B post mark.

Tony Conrad and Ryan Frietas from about.me have announced the launch of about.me collections. The new service applies to all about.me profiles and allows users to create collections of people linked to their profile based on a variety of criteria established by the user.

If you're a frequent Amazon shopper than you are going to be a little upset with yesterday's announcement from Amazon, they are now raising their minimum free shipping price to $35.

Netflix posted their third quarter earnings today and blew projections out of the water with an increase of 1.3 million subscribers. Netflix now has more than forty million subscribers and has overtaken HBO in paid subscribers.

In a recent announcement, IBM has talked about a prototype computer that is cooled and powered by electrolyte liquid...think computer Gatorade.

When it comes to newspapers there is no doubt that the digital world is taking over, but what are newspaper subscribers to do? Well soon they can with the Google Newsstand portal.

When it comes to terrestrial travel, Virgin Galactic wants in on the action and this time they're not just talking about sending billionaires in to space.