This mesmerizing video may look like an art display, but it's actually a data representation of the five million routes taken by London cyclists since 2010. It's the perfect marriage of graphic visualization and useful information.

It sounds like the greatest pulp science fiction tale ever, but it's real, and the story behind it is filled with twists and turns. Researchers have recently released information on a carved Buddha brought to Germany from Tibet by the Nazis. Astoundingly, the statue is made from a meteorite believed to have fallen some 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolian border.

The Re-Feed device could easily pass for a concept coffee maker, except what it makes is plant food: it liquefies your leftovers and pumps it directly into your flowerpots, all while sitting on your countertop.

"Smarter Socks" is a system so detailed it will empower your socks to virtually organize themselves by tracking and recording their activity through RFID chips, a scanner and an iPhone app. Why? Because lost socks is serious business as countless hours could be lost trying to find that straggler or match up look-a-likes.