A 30-year-old magician from Singapore on Saturday transported himself in just five seconds from the ground floor to the rooftop of a 50-story building with over 5,000 people watching him do his stunt. "It's unbelievable. It's amazing. It's fantastic to see this in Singapore," said one spectator.

Automaker Nissan is planning technology able to detect whether drivers are sober. The techniques, unveiled in concept form, could reduce driving fatalities to below that of a decade ago, according to the car maker. One system under investigation is a gearshift able to discern the driver's alcohol level, emitting an audio warning if the operator drinks too much. Already, Volvo offers a breathalyser that won't allow the car's ignition to start if alcohol levels are too high.

Margaret Wegner, 59, will no longer have to suffer the chronic headaches and nosebleeds she has been subject to since she was 4. Thanks to advances in medical technology, doctors were able to remove almost all of the 3. 1 inch long pencil that accidentally bored through Wegner's skin 55 years ago and eventually became lodged in her brain. In an interview with a local newspaper, Wegner described the bizarre incident that how she fell over while carrying the pencil in her hand and accidentally stabbed herself in the head.

Authorities at an Oregon School were left shocked with their mouths wide open after it emerged that the water in the school's toilet bowls was far much better than the drinking water at the school's fountains. The discovery was made by a Kyleray Katherman, who infused a little science into his English assignment. Katherman, a student at the Oregon Coast Technology School, took the samples of water from the school's toilet bowls and from four drinking water fountains and took them to the campus' science lab.

Colorado Springs artist Jason Baalman is trying out an array of unusual mediums that can produce a picture on a canvass - be it ketchup with French fries, or chocolate syrup with a spoon. But this 30-year-old artist has an eye for technology too, as he has also painted a replica of the Mona Lisa using Microsoft's Paint accessory software. Since posting a video of himself painting portraits of Ronald McDonald and Morgan Spurlock, the creator of the documentary "Super Size Me," using ketchup and French fries on social networking website You Tube, Baalman - previously a struggling artist - has bagged a huge backlog of portrait orders.