If you’re like us, you have a ton of display-quality photographs just sitting on your computer. We’ve thought about submitting them to our new favorite reality show, “America’s Next Top MySpace Photographer,” but apparently they only accept self-portraits taken in a mirror. If you’re ready to turn those idle digital photos into fine art, there’s CanvasPop. [...]

An old recycling depot in a suburb near Melbourne may seem like an unlikely place to see some of Australia’s most acclaimed furniture designers, chefs, architects and artists, but that’s where many of them go for inspiration and materials. People like Vue de Monde’s Shannon Bennett, furniture designer Mark Tuckey, eco-entrepreneur Joost Bakker, architect Jerry [...]

Finding your way around a new airport—at least major ones in the US—just got a little easier with the help of Bing search. The new airport maps show you the location of terminals, ticket counters, restrooms, eateries, ATMs, and more. To find a map of one of the 42 airports currently covered (Microsoft plans on [...]

LOS ANGELES — Producing sci-fi programming for the Web brings a host of challenges given smaller online budgets, but the key to make Web shows work often lies in setting the story “five minutes in the future,” advised Web creator Taryn O’Neill during a recent interview with Beet.TV. That philosophy helps her to focus on [...]

Google Analytics, the immensely popular suite of tools that Google offers to help webmasters track their site traffic, is getting a big boost this week: the service has launched a real-time dashboard that updates with user events as they happen. That’s a big deal, as it brings Google more in line with popular real-time analytics products like [...]

MIT researchers just officially unveiled a device that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The device builds upon a breakthrough hydrogen producing technology developed in 2008, and they are calling it an “artificial leaf” because of it capacity to create chemical fuels directly from sunlight. The cell is also made from common [...]

The Cornell Creative Machines Lab has invented a 3-D printer that not only allows you to print food, but lets you create almost any design imaginable with your favorite ingredients. Working with experts from the French Culinary Institute, Cornell’s new technology may soon be available for chefs and home use, allowing enterprising cooks to customize new and interesting [...]

Having decided as to “go it alone,” and not be part of Hulu, CBS has seen dramatic growth of its business in an “open, non-exclusive approach” to syndication with deals with AOL, Yahoo, MSN and Comcast, explains Ken Lagana, SVP of Sales at CBS Interactive. He was a speaker at last month’s Beet.TV Online video [...]

The Weather Channel, which claims the second most downloaded iPad App, has moved from a Flash player to an HTML 5 player from Brightcove, enabling consumers to watch video regardless of their device, said Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV. The Weather Channel’s digital footprint is huge, with some 60 million [...]

Dyson fans have been keeping us cool bladelessly since 2009. But now James Dyson is bringing even more heat by releasing the new Dyson Hot, a bladeless space heater! The Dyson Hot fills a room with warm air faster than traditional space heaters, and it can even double as a fan in hotter months. Read the [...]