Well, looky here: Apple, the company that's been so adamant about the stylus being a symbol of why past tablets have failed just received two patents for a pair of styli that work in conjunction with the iPhone and iPad. Take a deep breath, and click in for the full explanation.

Hailed as the most business-friendly city in the world, Hong Kong is also one of the densest places man's ever built. With a population of 7.07 million people, where do they all live? The answer: in the sky (sorta).

At the end of March we reported a story about a bunch of teens that got together to build a Battlestar Galactica Viper simulator. Okay, that's a bit of an undersell considering these guys weren't building some desktop cardboard cut out or Lego model. Theirs is a serious full-size, 360-motion sim.

As part of the BBC's "60-second idea" series, science fiction author Elizabeth Moon is making a case for slapping a barcode on every person at birth. In a digital world where a good majority of our interactions are anonymous, it's a stifling thought. So, why's she for it?

This May, the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center opened up "The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World." The traveling exhibit, which features the many, many patents of Steve Jobs, was designed by the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum and is fairly breathtaking for being 312 pieces of paper.

Consisting of 30 display panels that are each four feet wide, eight tall and shaped like the face of an iPhone, the exhibit displays facsimiles of 312 of the 317 different patents that Steve Jobs acquired. It also has a case with an a 1984 Apple Macintosh Computer; a 1992 NeXT monitor, sound box, microcomputer, keyboard and mouse; and a 2003 Apple iPod, which was the first to feature a discrete touch-sensitive click wheel as opposed to one with distinct mechanical buttons.

We chatted with Richard Maulsby, Associate Commissioner for Innovation Development at the U.S. Patent and Trade Office, who told us: "I think what we endeavored to do with the exhibit is capture not just the quality but the breadth of this man's innovation genius."

This massive bench now on display at the Industry Gallery in Washington, D.C. stretches over the warehouse space like an oversized coiled snake. Incredibly, the sculpture — called "Spun" — weighs just under ten pounds thanks to a unique carbon fiber construction process.

New Hamphire 4-year-old, Anthony Smith, has a hearing disability that requires the use of a blue hearing aid. When Anthony decided that he didn't want to wear it anymore because, "Superheroes don't wear blue ears," his mother contacted Marvel Comics. And Marvel did something pretty incredible: they created a superhero just for Anthony.

File this one under devices that make so much sense we thought they already existed. Someone finally invented what might be the most practical kiosk ever: an automated key duplicator.

Lots of mattress advertisements talk about their beds as feeling like you're floating on air, but they're all just pretenders compared to this maglev bed that really does keep you up above the ground.

Okay, so maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but the iPhone powered gTar will let you fake your way through some tunes flawlessly even if you really can't play.

It's not quite as compact as ADR Studio's Socialmatic Instagram camera, but we think this "Instagram Camera" is hands-down the best camera you can pay $2,000 and clearly the camera of the year.

Being in the business of selling an AM/FM radio in 2012 is not a position many companies want to be in. Considering the myriad of digital radio options such as Last.fm, Pandora and Spotify that can be streamed from smartphones, tablets and PCs to any Bluetooth speaker, who is seriously going to drop any major cash on an old-fashioned analog radio?

If your company is Tivoli, makers of some of the world's finest and most attractive radios, you might beg to differ. This year, two of its most popular radios finally get Bluetooth upgrades, and the company enjoyed two firsts: a Tivoli Radio app with 100 stations and a pair of noise-canceling headphones that carry the brand's signature wood finishes.

The reason trees are our friends is that they take CO2 out of the atmosphere and turn it into things that are less bad for the environment and much more useful to us, namely wood and fruit and oxygen and stuff. A novel new chemical reaction promises to do the same sort of thing, transforming CO2 straight into a semiconductor, fertilizer and a big pile o' energy.

A huge PC game launched last week. Maybe you heard of it? Yes, we're talking about Diablo 3. The game was so huge that Blizzard just had to announce some record-setting figures to let you all know how successful D3 has been. Who says PC gaming is dead? It's clearly not.

After a heart attack, your heart can become weak to the point that it's no longer able to effectively supply the rest of your body with blood. This means bad times, especially since patients with severe heart failure have to rely on mechanical devices or transplants, but stem cells derived from a patient's own skin could potentially provide a cure.