If you really want to get into the mood for Halloween, just go to one of your local haunted houses. Tracy Smith visited a modern-day haunted house for some old fashion fun. Expensive high-tech monsters and more!

Osaka University’s Android Repliee Q2 pushes the edge in realism with uncanny facial expressions and movements.

Imagine an elevator anchored to the bottom of the ocean that reaches into outer space. Learn about the space elevator and watch this short video created by Brad Edwards while working on his 1999 NIAC report.

Other space elevator links:
http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=b021119_spaceelevatorweb
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392162&language=english
http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/35657/Space_Elevator_Gets_Lift.html

This is a beautiful video of a water ballon being poked with a nail. The video below was taken with a high speed camera. Wonderous experiences seem to lay just out of the reach of natural perception. Enjoy.

Great documentary about the large hadron collider particle accelerator, being built at Cern, near Geneva due in 2007.

Watch as salt is transformed into awesome patterns by altering the sound waves. Be careful though, it might get very high pitched.

Great White Meets Granny ….

A full 2′ long, this unique robotic shark has a full-range of motion to replicate the smooth, sleek swimming of one of nature’s most efficient predators. It is able to gracefully maneuver up, down, left, right, and even backwards through water, in depths up to 9′. The shark can swim up to 40′ from its handheld remote unit which is also submersible, allowing you to swim with your shark. great white shark, remote controlled shark is now available for home visit.