Burning man, which currently rages in the Nevada desert, is Mecca for art cars. America is the capital of modified cars, since rules about what you can do to your car and it still be street legal are less stringent than most other developed nations. Custom vehicles are a cultural expression of individuality.There are many categories of art cars, but our favorites are where a mundane, ordinary vehicle is completely covered in a single material or item. Here are some of our faves.

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie used to be comedy partners. But Hugh Laurie has become more famous than Fry in the US by not shaving and doing a passable American accent in ‘House'.This week Fry fought back by combining celebrity and Apple worship. He created a web supernova by starting a Wordpress blog and writing a 6500 word essay on smartphones. This has had Mac heads' sphincters winking with excitement, because Stephen Fry actually knows what he's talking about. He bought the second ever Mac in the UK, after Douglas Adams, giving him an Apple Erdos number of 1.(update: looks like Stephen Fry's blog is currently ‘fried'. so we've posted a cache of his smartphone post under his entry in the chart.)Here is a list of geek-hero Apple users, vote for your all time favorite for our hall of fame:

No other chair extracts more money than the one you sit in to have teeth extracted. Dental chairs have become a testing ground for high tech wizardry and ergonomics, evolving from decorative Victorian models worthy of Dr. Frankenstein's lab., to space-age pods with insect-like composite limb attachments.

Although making a 3d image is more dramatic than increasing its resolution, say, the technology is fairly primitive. Because of this, stereo cameras are something of an interesting retro curiosity. These days, custom made stereo cameras with twin lenses at eye separation are usually replaced by custom rigs for digital cameras, with appropriate software.