If you’re told to write an essay on “Science, a boon or a bane?” after reading this article, we’re sure you’d write it is a boon to humanity, because such is the invention of Shaun Eldred, a student of product designing at the Brunel University. Shaun has successfully completed making a small GPS buggy which is capable of tracking down your movements and following you, with the help of a tiny GPS faculty which has to be carried by the user.

Honda's very polite but very nervous engineers held their breath as I prepared to mount the U3-X, the company's futuristic "personal mobility" prototype. It's a unicycle of sorts that works a bit like a Segway. Although I approached the machine with the utmost care and followed Honda's explicit instructions to wear trousers -- no skirts, they warned, and I can see why -- the engineers were just a wee bit antsy.

"Gently," one of them said. "Make sure you make adjustments very gradually."

Epic Games has been running dark for quite some time now. It released Gears of War 2 back in 2008, and co-developed the Xbox Live Arcade hit Shadow Complex last year, but in the ways of full-fledged retail releases, its lips have been shut tight.

The Digital Economy Bill was passed in the House of Commons by a majority of 189 votes to 47 last night after just over two hours of wrangling.

And, despite the fact that the notorious Clause 18 is no longer present, an amendment to Clause 8 by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw means that website blocking -- a measure that has widespread opposition both within and outside of the House -- will still be possible when the Bill becomes law.