Gaming

A London club installs pee-controlled gaming urinals, Philips creates a lamp powered by living bacteria, and a Skyrim enthusiast liberates every book in Tamriel for your commute.

Two new elements join the periodic table, a Minecraft-themed wedding complete with Mojang-designed drinks labels, and how Chinese gamers outsmarted government censorship with a large tropical fruit.

Scientists confirm a real-life Tatooine orbiting two suns, Super Mario Bros shrunk to 64 pixels, and an 82-kilogram LEGO Star Destroyer built entirely from photographs.

Tetris played on a scale measured in microns, a LEGO model of the Large Hadron Collider built from 9500 pieces, and Isaac Newton's notebooks digitised for the internet.

IBM creates a chip from 10,000 carbon nanotube transistors, a programmer recreates the Myst linking book with a real PC inside, and a rocking chair that charges your iPad via kinetic energy.

UNSW researchers achieve a crucial milestone in quantum computing, a man spends US$3 million to save every book ever published, and Lego meets Minecraft.

A robot lawnmower you control from your iPhone, a neural network that develops schizophrenia and confesses to terrorism, and a miniaturised Atari drive for the retro-computing faithful.

An iPhone-controlled beer cannon, the Popeye origins story that Nintendo didn't want you to know, and a man who has spent his life collecting every sealed PS2 game ever released.