CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman takes a ride in a flying armchair. The chair is suspended underneath what is known as a balloon cluster, and the ride took place at the Emeryville, Calif., headquarters of Pixar Animation.

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This Flash game based on the infamous incident last winter in which an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at former U.S. president George W. Bush has spawned at least seven so-called ‘news games.’ Other topics that have inspired such games include the swine flu, the water landing of US …

On Thursday, NASA announced it has released a set of 3D photo collections of the International Space Station and its Mars rover. The photos were created using Microsoft’s Photosynth technology, which automatically stitches together hundreds of images from standard digital cameras.

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