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The question of how to monetize content in an online media landscape has seen the emergence of some innovative business models. Google, whose AdWords service reaches most corners of the web, has unveiled scheme called Contributor that gives web users the option of eliminating ads for a monthly fee.

The Spark is by far the least powerful jet ski you can buy. It's also much, much lighter than its competition, giving it a competitive power to weight ratio and some unique handling abilities. And it burns just over a tenth of the fuel the big boys do. Loz Blain and Noel McKeegan take it for a spin.

Volkswagen has unveiled a new fuel cell vehicle – the Golf SportWagen HyMotion. According to VW, the demo car illustrates the automaker's strategy of implementing alternative drives into existing high-production vehicles, as opposed to starting from scratch by creating entirely new models.

Scientists have created computer games that significantly improved depth perception and binocular vision in people with a lazy eye. Unlike the traditional patch used to treat the condition, the video games encourage both eyes to work together.

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered an alignment of supermassive black holes located billions of light-years apart. The team delved deeper, finding that the quasars aren’t just linked to each other, but are also aligned with the large-scale structure of the Universe.

Powered by Aura has developed a system to wirelessly power up Christmas tree lights. The Aura system is centered around the Aura Power Ring, which can be placed under or within a tree to wirelessly transfer power to the LED ornaments.

The first two Android Wear watches were very gadgety-looking affairs, but three recent releases add some style to Google's wearable platform. We have two of those – the Moto 360 and Asus ZenWatch – in house right now, and have a few thoughts on how they compare.

If you're a major aerospace company and you want to assess a variety of environmentally-friendly technologies for use in your airplanes, do you spread those technologies out across several individual planes? Not always. Boeing puts them all in a single aircraft known as the ecoDemonstrator.

The Helios headphones rely on a photovoltaic panel built into the headband to draw on the Sun's power. The Exod team says each hour of exposure to natural light can provide its Bluetooth headphones with enough juice for half an hour of clean energy listening.

Medical researchers from Keele and Nottingham Universities claim that coating magnetic nanoparticles with proteins and magnetically directing them to the site of an injury can help stimulate stem cells to regenerate broken bones without further surgery or external mechanical growth stimulation.

NASA has released a video depicting the initial stages of deployment of the ambitious Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, that will see four identical spacecraft study a phenomenon known for causing eruptions on the Sun and triggering aurora.

According to researchers from Northwestern University, Blu-ray discs are not only superior to DVDs in capacity and definition, they could also help markedly improve the efficiency of solar cells when their etched information patterns are repurposed for use as light concentrators.