At 84 years of age, John Guano seems a candidate for a kidney transplant.
But consider this: The kidney he received was 69.
Until recently, the kidneys would not have been eligible for use in a transplant due to age of the deceased donor. But this summer, surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital transplanted in Guano, making it [...]

The Cadillac driver is not really the audience that springs to mind for electrical autos. Battery-powered green potency appears a strange fit with Cadillac’s brand image of power, status, and cosseting.  But Bob Lutz has long dreamed about an electrical Caddy, so it may yet come to pass.  General Motors had been working on a [...]

It’s been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Net browser that introduced millions of men and women to the Net. After its early success, Netscape was generally defeated by Microsoft in the supposed browser wars of the 1990s that ruled the Web’s first chapter.
Now an outstanding Silicon Valley financier, Mr Andreessen is backing [...]

Last month, analysts revealed that schizophrenics were much more likely to have once been put through influenza in the womb than healthy people. Other common experiences can also drive away our wits, long after we are out of nappies. In truth, the classic Yankee approach to life teems with risk factors for psychological sickness, asserts [...]

The smartphone maker took a giant step in the direction of a much-needed comeback by saying the Pre and accompanying mobile operating system, WebOS. The Pre statement garnered plenty of pre-show hum, and controlled stories coverage on the opening day of the event. But the Pre wasn’t the single thing notable about this year’s gadget [...]

2 of the tech industries largest champs for using technology to dump misery in the 3rd world took the stage at the electronics Show here on Fri. for the final keynotes of the meeting.
The message the operatives brought to the group at CES was simple : Technology is fundamental to bettering the lives of billions [...]

Correction : An other version of this story failed to reasonably credit the image used. Tom Keating from TMCnet had taken the screen shot of the GizmoCall dial pad. Keating also reviewed the GizmoCall service here. A new image from GizmoCall has been added to this story. Just like other VoIP services, the attract of [...]

At the age of forty, King Gillette was a pissed off inventor, a sour anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps. It was 1895, and despite ideas, energy, and loaded folks, he had small to show for his work.
He blamed the evils of market competition. Indeed, the year before he had broadcast a book, [...]