Astronauts use up lots of oxygen, but they also produce plenty of raw material for making more of it. The unlikely source: pee. Add filters and electrolysis, and urine could open up new vistas for interplanetary travel. By Philip Chien.
Violet Blue's new book inspires our columnist to search for the porn that best suits her tastes. The industry doesn't make it easy for an intelligent, female porn lover. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
The All-In-One Office Communicator replaces your Verizon DSL modem and tidies up your cluttered desk to boot. But the cordless phone's multitasking competence varies wildly, and by broadband router standards, it's a mixed bag. By Robert Strohmeyer.
Cool new services aid frequent fliers, overloaded photographers and enthusiastic drinkers. These web mashups and more are on display at Mashup Camp 2 in Mountain View, California. In Monkey Bites.
Two brothers, two iBooks, two slim cell phones, with a key difference: One bought his phone from Verizon, which has unabashedly disabled the Razr's built-in MP3 ringtone feature. In Listening Post.
A homemade ditty based on Sen. Ted Stevens' description of the internet as a "series of tubes" gets scrubbed from Rupert Murdoch's social-networking site. Or maybe it's just stuck in a clog somewhere. By Ryan Singel.