A huge winter storm barreled toward the East Coast on Sunday after dumping more than a foot of snow on the Upper Midwest, grounding hundreds of airline flights and closing major highways on the Plains. Seven traffic deaths in Wisconsin were blamed on the storm.

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While the AquaVista 500 won't be able to hold any animated stress turtles, this wall-mountable aquarium will still be able to serve triple duty as stress relief, wall art, and conversation starter as your goldfish laze away.

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Tonight, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Gore accepted the award, saying, “My fellow Americans, people all over the world — we need to solve the climate crisis. It’s not a political issue. It’s a moral issue.

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The "Woodie", or home climbing wall is a project many a climber has dreamed into existence. Late night sketches on the back of drink coasters, and avid discussions of angles, holds, size, location, and so on, has lead to many a half-hearted construction.

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Nokia has been hard at work designing more playful mobile phones. The Finnish company's latest innovation is a recently patented design that incorporates a built-in joystick function to give the phone an edge with serious gamers.

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Celebrating 75 years of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo calls for some serious cowboy fanfare: a new scoring system with more prize money than ever, the hottest concert ticket in the show's history and, of course, a return of the world's largest livestock exhibition.

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Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur is one of several new supercar makers to emerge in recent times. The first road car was shown at Geneva last year and a significantly revised version of the barely disguised racecar will emerge at this year’s Geneva show in early March.

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