Dollar Van – an alternative transportation system brought a twist in local transportation by providing a showcase of talented musicians, rappers and comedians performing inside a dollar van with real passengers during mass transit.
Dollar Van a privately owned transportation vehicle offering commuters a cheap ride to make their journey adventurous and immensely entertaining through various route. Get a ride.. Enjoy! 
The year 2008 saw a drop in CD sales and also in the number of buyers purchasing music and it has been also noticed that there has been changed the way consumers buy and listen to music.
As per annual Digital Music Study by NPD Market Research (formerly known as National Purchase Diary), there were 17 million fewer CD customers in 2008 than in past years. CD sales have been dropping for quite some time, and while 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally last year, the number of Internet users paying for digital music only increased by 8 million in 2008.” The overall music sales were up 10 percent only in last year.
Read More arstechnica
The researchers from Philips Electronics developed a jacket that lets people feel movies. The jacket is connected with vibration motors, this would be the first step to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer’s emotional response to what is being experienced on the big screen. Paul Lemmens, a Philips senior scientist, says ” “We want people to feel Bruce Lee’s anxiety about whether he will get out alive.”
The jacket contains 64 independently controlled actuators distributed across the arms and torso. The actuators are arrayed in 16 groups of four and linked along a serial bus; each group shares a microprocessor. Read more at Spectrum.ieee.org
Holi is an Indian Festival of Colors which is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalugna which arrives with the promise of warm days and new life. Holi celebrates arrival of Spring which is the season of rejuvenation, the earth discards its winter gloom and begins to blossom again. As it to mark seasonal change, people celebrate Holi by throwing colored powder and water at each other. Holi sprinkle colors into Indian landscape and invites the celebration of life. This year, Holi day was March 11.
Holi Festival of Colors – video powered by Metacafe
More Pics at Boston.com
