The AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin) is a water tank. Invented by Mitsui Engineering, the device features oscillators at around the circumference of the circular tank, whose synchronized motion produces standing waves that allows the display of images of roughly 12 pixels by 12 pixels. (Each "pixel" is about 4 inches in diameter.) In particular, the device allows one to "write" in English on the water surface, one letter at a time.

Now Hiring: Annelids The upscale Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town now has some earthworms on their staff. The hotel maintains its own worm farm, which they use to covert leftover food into compost, which is then used for the hotel's flower and vegetable gardens. Mary Murphy and Roger Jacques, the ones reponsible for the innovation says that a big problem with kitchen scraps is that the organic waste, if buried in a landfill, would decompose and release methane and/or pollute underground water. By processing those with earthworms the natural way, one can reduce the environmental impact.

You can hrow out the egg-timer, thanks to the British Egg Information Service's new invention. Inundated by the question "how should one boil an egg", the Service started a program to print, using special heat sensitive ink, graphics on the shells of the eggs. After heating the egg for a certain period of time, the ink would turn from invisible to black, thereby alerting the breakfast-preparer to its cooked status. The eggs now come in three variety: soft, medium, and hard, which corresponds to different lengths of time that it takes for the ink to change color.