Engineers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University say they have developed a way to recycle circuit boards that's easy on the environment and could lead to more-durable park benches, sewer grates, or fences. (more)

Some of the world's best sustainable designers are termites. (more)

Intel is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet. (more)

Starbucks' new stick makes a splash. (more)

Creating further line extensions of existing brands simply waters down the franchise. (more)

Eight ways the iMac changed computing. (more)

Chevy Volt design finished, GM says. (more)

Humans relish food spiced with ... fungicide? (more)

An Indian welfare official has advised poor people to farm rats for snacks as a way to beat rising food prices. (more)

UK retailer, ASDA, has launched an innovative recycled cardboard milk container: the first milk bottle in the UK to be 91 per cent recycled (from waste office paper) and 99 per cent recyclable. (more)

Microsoft shows off its new Surface technology at five Sheraton hotels nationwide. (more)

Hybrid car owners are some of the most loyal in the U.S. market, with nearly half purchasing a vehicle of the same make when they buy another car. (more)

Kinesis releases its most flexible keyboard to date. (more)

The frontier of knowledge is becoming very hard to reach, making innovation more difficult and costly. (more)

A2B electric bike is a smooth, green ride. (more)

Ad agency Modernista relies on out-of-the-box thinking. (more)

Scientists are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible. (more)

Nissan sold on electric cars, not hybrids. (more)

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Earl Tupper invented Tupperware out of "a black rubbery waste product of the smelting process," but it was Brownie Wise who figured out that retail was not the place to sell his innovation, reports Mark Lasswell in a Wall Street Journal review of "Tupperware Unsealed," by Bob Kealing. (more)

The first Land Rover was not simply inspired by a Jeep, it was a Jeep, underneath. (more)

Dell's plan to help save Earth. (more)

Sunbathers can now get closer to God without having to bother getting dressed -- thanks to an inflatable church on the beach. (more)

Ford launching blind-spot mirror on Edge this fall. (more)

Mimicking the curves of a human retina has enabled a digital image sensor to take wide-angle pictures without distortion. (more)