New technology springs up daily, and finds new ways to merge together. The ‘Web 2.0’ concept is just one part of an all-encompassing convergence. But where is all of this actually taking us? That is the question that the Metaverse Roadmap has been created to answer, by examining such things as online social networks, online games and digital mapping. The business of predicting the future is always a little risky, but there’s a lot to be said for looking ahead further than the end of the week.

Group dating, in which groups of friends get together in the hopes of pairing off, kind of takes the “single” out of the “singles” marketplace, dontchathink?

Defense Tech has an introduction to what might be the wave of the future in military deployments. Forget finding a friendly host country, just seabase the whole operation.

An aphrodisiac that works? So claim those who have tested PT-141, a spray that can arouse the libido of men and women by acting directly on the brain.

Cobi van Tonder’s project Skatesonic turns skateboarders into instrumentalists, playing their boards like keyboards and interacting with their environment to create musical compositions.