When it comes to travel these days - and let's face it, even the weird and beard have to have a holiday - the worst thing about it is the baggage you will almost certainly have to take with you.

When it comes to robotics, Japan is often at the very forefront of development, so it's no surprize to learn that Tokyo-based company Cyberdyne has developed a cyborg-type robot that can expand and improve physical capability. What is surprizing is how relatively inexpensive they intend to make them.

With all the dire news stories about recession, layoffs and other economic woes plaguing the country, it seems fitting somehow to note that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the comic strip Dilbert, the ever-funny, ever-savage satire of life in the modern workplace.

Now his creator, Scott Adams, has written a book charting the history of the character and his own progress as a creator - Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert.

 

The Space Age: Exploration, Design and Popular Culture touring exhibtion organised by London's V&A Museum of Childhood continues its journey around Britain in 2009.

 

This is a fun new gadegt: an ingenious H2O multi-function clock saves the world and gets you out of bed!

You just have to add water to get the H2O multi-function clock going: an electrochemical reaction between the electrodes and water produces electrical energy.

Most of us have been there: saved a file on a computer, changed computers, changed operating systems, changed decades - only to find the files we consigned to back up disk can either now no longer be read.

Could you do without your mobile or your computer? That's the question posed by BBC Four in a new series, giving viewers a unique insight into how developments in technology have shaped our lives over the past 40 years.

A US delegation to Iraq had its security threatened after a US Congressman announced his arrival in the country via social messaging site Twitter.

Not content with creating realistic maps of every square inch of the planet's land surafee, Google has announced Ocean in Google Earth, a new feature of the search engine's 3D world map -- now at Version 5.0 -- that enables users to dive beneath the water surface, explore 3D underwater terrain and browse ocean-related content contributed by marine scientists.