For a limited period the BBC News Website is experimenting with clickable links within the body of news stories. If you click on one of these links, a window will appear containing background material relevant to the highlighted word. Content is being pulled in from sites like YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia and it seems to be done pretty well.
The company behind the animation for the recent Grand Theft Auto game have developed a new system which has overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - refering to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.
"...a whole new way to search. More fun, more entertaining, more interesting, more effective..."
With this lovely new search site/tool you can view combined results from multiple search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Flikr, and more...) in various visual layouts.
Each of the available 'views' is a real treat - spend some time with them and have fun searching.
