How many of you like to give money out to kids during the holidays? Maybve produce a silver dollar from a gandkid's ear? Show them a trick with John A.'s signature? Well if you're up for the practice, you might want to try giving out some Money Origami. 46 year-old Clay Randall Jr's online instructions will show you how to take paper money and fold it into a number of cool shapes including an Xmas tree, snake, spider, butterfly, eyeglasses, gift box, sailboat, dress shirt, even a ring you can wear on your finger. Clay offers easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions complete [More]

On the front page of the Globe Gizmos section of today's print edition of the Globe And Mail you'll find my guide to buying a High Definition television followed by my picks among the best in Plasma, LCD. LCD Projection, DLP, and even home theatre projectors. If you keep following the article through the section, you'll also get my thoughts on the current Blu-Ray and HD-DVD solutions. This is my third year writing this special for the Globe and in addition to drawing upon my year-long experience with the latest technology, I also perform two weeks of side-by-side comparisons and tests of the equipment featured. [More]

Hours before Microsoft Canada is set to officially launch their new edition of their Windows operating system, we have the first look at the final code. Here is my take on Microsoft Windows Vista. [More]

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Newsmap takes the latest stories from Google's News Aggregator and displays them in a visual map that, in just one glance, gives you a quick impression as to the patterns that appear from news throughout different cultures and countries around the world. It does this by assigning each headline a colour based on its catagory and a space based on the number of related articles that are also linked to that particular story. The biggest stories of the moment will appear as large blocks on the upper left, while stories receiving the least amount of attention will appear as smaller blocks on the lower right. You can sort the results according to country and category, and of course go directly to the news story itself just by clicking on it. [More]

Using any of the keys on your keyboard, you can change this goofy video and make its unashamed dancer Nick perform all sorts of funky moves in his red jogging wear and frizzy hair cut. You have to give the guy credit for having more than one move and at least trying to do the splits. [More]

According to ambulance paramedic Trevor Storey, the 5 year-old boy was hit by a car at 65 km/h, enough force to send his tricycle flying 40 feet. The passerby who found him did their best to perform CPR as they waited for the ambulance and told the medics when they arrived that the boy had appeared to die briefly, but the CPR attempts apparently brought him back. As they raced him back to the hospital, Storey and his partner Trevor Kidd call ahead to have a flight crew meet them at Emergency. With the extent of the little boy’s injuries he’ll need to be airlifted away to Sick Kid’s in Toronto. [More]

On the surface, Poom seems like a fairly easy game. You drop a ball and have to keep it bouncing on a 3D platform. The trick is that the platform keeps changing. You don't control the ball, but the platofmr itself and its up to you to quickly spot the changes and position the platform so that the ball hits a tile and doesn't fall through a hole instead. As you keep the ball bouncing, you'll see different types of tiles appear. Some will make the ball bounce better than others, some offer up little treasure bonuses for you to collect. Like bouncing a tennis ball on the end of a racket, the idea is to see how long you can keep the ball in play. [More]

On the surface, Poom seems like a fairly easy game. You drop a ball and have to keep it bouncing on a 3D platform. The trick is that the platform keeps changing. You don't control the ball, but the platofmr itself and its up to you to quickly spot the changes and position the platform so that the ball hits a tile and doesn't fall through a hole instead. As you keep the ball bouncing, you'll see different types of tiles appear. Some will make the ball bounce better than others, some offer up little treasure bonuses for you to collect. Like bouncing a tennis ball on the end of a racket, the idea is to see how long you can keep the ball in play. [More]

People share many things over the internet - home movies, personal diaries, jokes, music playlists - now comes an online sharing network for dreams. Sawlogs is a social website where users can record and share their strangest dreams. The idea is that the moment you wake up after a particularily bizarre and surreal one, you hit your keyboard and record it online before you forget, then check in later to see what comments you inspire and hopefully others can help you figure out just what your sub-conscious means by vividly making you feel that your teeth keep falling out everytime you try to speak. Or, you can just visit the website and read all of the crazy dreams that people are posting. You can even search the database by keyword and see if someone else has had a dream similar to your own. Depending on how many comments a dream description attracts, it's rewarded a different coloured sheep icon. [More]