NEW YORK (PNN) - July 12, 2012 - Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.

To find out what really draws their test shoppers' attention, companies like Procter & Gamble Co. and Kimberly Clark Corp. are combining three-dimensional computer simulations of product designs and store layouts with eye-tracking technology; and that, in turn, is helping them roll out new products faster and come up with designs and shelf layouts that boost sales.

LONDON, England (PNN) - July 3, 2012 - The world's first genetically modified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.

The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the Fascist Police States of Amerika provoked another furious debate about ethics. Currently, two of the babies have been tested and found to contain genes from three 'parents'.

Goal is to make government intrusion invisible to citizenry.

DALLAS, Texas (PNN) - June 21, 2012 - Cameras capable of tracking passengers from the parking garage to gates to the tarmac are a key first step in creating what the airline industry would like to see at airports worldwide: a security apparatus that would scrutinize passengers more thoroughly, but less intrusively, and in faster fashion than now.

BOISE, Idaho (PNN) - June 19, 2012 - The ability to read other people is largely perceived to be intuitive - some people just have a talent for “seeing” what other people are thinking or feeling. But what if you could augment yourself with such an ability, allowing you to perceive changes in other people’s biologies as their biochemical state changes?