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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A 49-year-old Columbia man is charged in a most bizarre case that included a definitely unwanted birthday gift. The Columbia Police Department says the man, Frederick Davis, is charged with domestic violence. Police say Davis got into an argument with the female victim around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning -- which also turned out to be her birthday. The two argued to the point, according to police, where Davis bit off the tip of the woman's pinkie finger and swallowed it. Police have not yet been able to recover the fingertip.

A new haptic device will be shown at the next SIGGRAPH. This virtual reality system, the Fingertip Digitizer, has been developed at the University of Buffalo (UB). It will interpret your hand gestures and will translate them for your PC, medical devices or computer games. According to one developer, the Fingertip Digitizer "will help bridge the gap between what a person knows and what a computer knows" and a commercial version should be available within 3 years. Read more… Here is the introduction about this new device developed at UB Virtual Reality Laboratory. UB researchers say their "Fingertip Digitizer," which...

There's nothing quite as unnerving as becoming the target of fraud. For us at Wendy's, that nightmare became reality when a customer falsely accused the Wendy's on Monterey Road in San Jose, Calif., of putting a human fingertip in a bowl of chili. Within an hour the story was on TV news, and soon after, Wendy's was fodder for Jay Leno. It was painful for us to watch unfold. In the early hours of this crisis, we were faced with demanding questions. How we chose to respond was critical. The exposure of this hoax by authorities has completely vindicated Wendy's....

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The mysterious finger that a woman claimed to have found in a bowl of Wendy's chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the finger in an industrial accident, police said Friday. ADVERTISEMENT "The jig is up. The puzzle pieces are beginning to fall into place, and the truth is being exposed," Police Chief Rob Davis said. The discovery of the finger's owner marks a significant break in a case that has confounded authorities for nearly two months, ever since Anna Ayala claimed she bit down on the well-manicured, 1 1/2-inch finger in a...