Smashing Magazine’s list of cool and innovative devices and designs to look forward to in the near future.

Why don’t we drop medical waste and nuclear waste into active volcanoes, the “ultimate high-temperature incinerators”? This is the question that came out on top from Slate’s reader-selected favorite questions from Explainer’s unanswered questions of 2007, and Slate provides the answer.

Russian designer, iuneWind, shares his technique in this tutorial which shows how me made the “Summer Cocktail” wallpaper. Even though he apologizes for his poor English, it does add a unique and fun touch to the tutorial. Check out his neat portfolio as well.

Dude to terror threats, the Drakar Rally, one of the biggest automobile racing competitions, has been canceled. Rather than lose out to terror, why not just change the course and not go through countries where terror threats were issued.

Heat is the main ingredient in the kitchen, and this NYTimes article takes a look at how one can get better at conserving energy in the kitchen.

A graphical explanation of how Iowa Democrats selects their delegates. So much for democracy being simple!

The Japanese sensing a degradation in their education system and loosing confidence in it, is looking towards Indian style education, to try and keep up with China and India, the new rising powers of Asia.