When I think of parties with an ice sculpture centerpiece, it’s usually some genteel affair with finger sandwiches and a string quartet providing the music. That’s why it’s such a surprise to see the massively impressive ice sculpture of Optimus Prime , rising to a towering 26 feet.

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Optimus Prime ice sculpture is 26 feet of frozen awesomeness

Cow dung releases huge amounts of methane gas when it sits around, but few farms do anything to put that waste to use, other than using it as fertilizer. Now a huge plant is being built in China, that will use the waste from 60,000 cows to provide electricity to thousands of homes.

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Giant Chinese plant will turn cow poo into electric power

The British Navy has gotten into the holiday spirit by putting one of its aircraft carriers , the HMS Invincible , up for auction. She’s 700 feet long, weighs 17,000 tons and would be perfect for a relaxing day on the lake or intimidating medium-sized nations. Bid now!

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Up for bid: one aircraft carrier, lightly used, with ski-jump

The next photos we get of the surface of Mars will be taken by this camera, NASA’s most advanced.

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Here’s the next camera we’re sending to Mars

Samsung is at the forefront of digital displays again. This time, the company is toying around with using flexible displays to make 3D movies really jump off the screen.

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Flexible 3D TV could put more ‘pop’ into 3D movies

Samsung is at the forefront of digital displays again. This time, the company is toying around with using flexible displays to make 3D movies really jump off the screen.

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Flexible 3D TV could put more ‘pop’ into 3D movies

To build a solar power plant , you need two things: lots of energy, and lots of silicon. The Sahara desert can provide scads of both, and by using power plants to ‘breed’ more power plants, the Sahara Solar Breeder Project will theoretically be producing enough green energy to power half of humanity by 2050.

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Breeding solar power plants could run half of Earth by 2050

Electrolux ’s Infinity I-Kitchen refrigerator has an embedded Linux system that lets you control the fridge over the Internet. It’s the kind of luxury addition you’ll most likely find on every fridge in two to three years, and yet it’s not as exciting as it should be.

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Electrolux I-Kitchen isn’t quite the fridge of the future

Getting a professional massage is wonderful but also very expensive. Who can afford regular massages? Not me, that’s for sure. But I think I might be able to afford a robot to do it for me. What a world!

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Finally! A robot masseuse to massage your cares away

NASA has a big press conference planned for Thursday, and it’s centered around “astrobiology.” Have they discovered extraterrestrial life?

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Has NASA discovered life on one of Saturn’s moons? (Updated!)