The national conventions are over and done, and what remains are the words that the politicians spoke (or didn't). To re-cap those words, we thought we'd create a Wordle gallery of the most notable candidates', spouses', and supporters' speeches.

The latest images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn's small inner moons.

: Image: Daniel SimonDaniel Simon is an automotive futurist. He's interned with Lamborghini and worked on concept cars for VW. But the auto industry -- indeed, the galaxy -- could not contain his imagination.In a time of all talk and no action by car companies promising us the car of the future, Simon's new book Cosmic Motors: Spaceships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy satisfies our future-lust...

Riding a motorcycle while talking on the phone is just plain dumb. But if you really must take that call, Mr. President, please consider a Bluetooth helmet. Some connected headgear can even tie in to your GPS and MP3 player, pausing tunes for directions on long trips. Might we suggest "Freebird"?Nolan N102 N-Com$740Every new N102 works with Nolan's N-Com connection kits, so if you're not ready to ...

As the Republican Party seeks to control the Oval Office, it has become a copyright scofflaw along the way. On Friday, the publishers for the Seattle rock "Heart" sent the party a cease-and-desist order to stop it from using the band's hit song "Baracuda," which was blaring at the Republican National Convention late Thursday. That marks the third time in as many months the GOP has been accused of ...

The open source Django web framework gets its very own coming out party this weekend at the first-ever DjangoCon. More than 200 web developers will converge on Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Saturday and Sunday to mingle and discuss the future of the fast, flexible web app framework with the funny name.

First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article, "crowdsourcing" describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few.Howe reveals that the crowd is more than wise -- it's talented, creative and stunningly productive. Crowdsourcing activates the transformative power of today's te...

Facebook users who choose to install the wrong third party application could find themselves inducted into a robot computer army controlled by a hacker. At least, that's what a team of Greek computer researchers proved with their rogue Photo of the Day application.

A shoestring experimenter takes his homemade Tesla coil and other amazing technological re-creations from YouTube to the History Channel.

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine m...

Researchers find a better way of directing airplanes around storms. But then, anything's better than the current method, which amounts to little more than guesswork.

One look at the Hypnos concept vehicle has us convinced someone's tripping in Citroën's interior design department.

Chrysler says it's got "producible prototypes" of a plug-in hybrid with a 300-mile range. We'll have to take its word for it, because it's showing them only to a few dealers.

: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California – For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a microscopic scale, scientists at Caltech have created new tools to detect disease and purify water using tiny stills.The creation of the still around A.D. 500 was one of hum...

The Fahrenheit 9/11 director plays the Radiohead card with his new documentary about the 2004 election, Slacker Uprising.

You can't set a land-speed record on mud, so British engineer Richard Jenkins packs up his wind-powered land yacht and heads home.

Freakish experiments and bizarre coincidences fuel Fox's new mind-bending series.

Zoho already had a powerful online office suite in Writer, Sheetand Show. Now it binds them around a virtual file system,making it easy to upload your word-processing, powerpoint andspreadsheet docs to the cloud and edit them anywhere. It looks a lotlike Google Docs now, but with a little digging you'll find moreuseful features.

The world's cheapest hybrid looks a lot like the world's most popular hybrid.

Gadgets are supposed to get smaller not larger, right? TiVo hears this and TiVo so doesn't care. The new TiVo HD XL is enormous with a terabyte of memory and THX-certified audio and video for pumping out true hi-def glory.

A British psychologist proves Maseratis, Lamborghinis and Ferraris get women hot and econoboxes leave them cold.

Molecular breast imaging, which features a radioactive tracer that enhances the image of a tumor hiding in deep breast tissue, not only reveals more tumors than the standard mammogram but returns fewer false positives, doctors say.

Throw out your level, your tape measure and your car's speedometer -- the iPhone has apps aimed at replacing all these tools and more.

Voggy adj. Smoggy weather caused when volcanoes, like Hawaii's active Kilauea, release sulfur dioxide that combines with dust and sunlight.Admixed embryo n. Legalese for any early-stage embryo combining human and nonhuman genes or tissue. Encompassing both cybrids and chimeras yet sounding less apocalyptic than either, these hybrids are now approved in England for stem cell research.Memristors n. ...

1957: It's E-day, as Ford Motor Company introduces its newest make, the Edsel.In an industry celebrated for its spectacular failures, the Edsel still takes the cake. Although as mechanically sound as other Ford products, the car was criticized from Day One for being too ugly, too expensive and vastly overhyped.The 1958 Edsel was intended to be an intermediate-level brand, bridging the gap between ...