It’s no news that technology and medicine are extending the average human life span. But it is astonishing to hear just how far some scientists think it could go; Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist from Cambridge University, believes the first person to live to 1,000 has already been born. I really must get a pension plan nailed down.

At last, a truly wearable PC that straps to your wrist! The specs aren’t that hot compared to the average desktop box (yet)…but true geeks will be stoked to know that it can run Linux.

Scientists at University of California, Riverside have demonstrated the ability to use carbon nanotubes as a scaffold on which to grow new bone cells, which could change the way bone defects and damage are treated in the near future.

A gang of researchers at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam have discovered a way to infect RFID tags with a worm-like computer virus.

Ooh, I want one of these Aerogardens for my kitchen. Nice industrial design in white or black to match your coffee maker, no messy dirt, “pre-seeded pods.” And it worries about watering the plants for you. Can’t beat that (he says, surveying the carnage that was once a balcony garden).