The world's largest sailing cruise ship has a name: the Orient Express Corinthian. The first of the Silenseas class, incorporating a number of high-tech features, has officially been christened at the Joubert graving dock in Saint-Nazaire, France.
Tags: Ships, Sailing, Luxury, World's Largest
Quaise Energy isn't chasing the kind of geothermal energy where Mother Earth was already kind enough to put hot rocks near the surface. Quaise is trying to make geothermal work almost anywhere on the planet, by drilling deeper than we ever have before ... with masers.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Quaise, Geothermal, Turbine, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy
Atari made it look so simple: press a few buttons to move, rotate, vanish through hyperspace, fire missiles, and boom: total asteroid destruction.
Category: Space Systems, Engineering
Tags: UC San Diego, Asteroid, Moon, University of Arizona
Bose is bringing back the Lifestyle badge after ages for a new range of speakers meant to grace your living room. With their feature sets and pricing, they'll go head to head against the latest offerings from Sonos, and the hope is that (mostly) new audio engineering chops for these three models will win you over.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Bose, Speakers, Speaker, Subwoofer, home theater
UK-based design team Increment Labs has introduced the LMW-V1 Light Meter Watch, which they tout as the world's first watch designed with a built in light meter for photographers who struggle to master manual settings.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Watch, Wristwatch, Light
Rising to a height of 78 m (256 ft), this extraordinary tower sets a new record as Denmark's tallest wooden building – and is one of the tallest in the world too. More than just its scale, though, the project impresses with its use of recycled materials, including everything from wind turbine blades to old windows.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Building and Construction, cross-laminated timber, Timber, Office
This is one of the few review proposals that I had to get permission from my better half for ... and frankly, she told me no, but I did it anyway.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Wet and dry vacuum cleaner, Vacuum, Reviews, Automation, iRobot
Could one man's trash truly be another's treasure? Well, scientists have unveiled a technique that dramatically increases fuel extraction from one of humanity's most abundant byproducts – sewage sludge, a.k.a. poop – while cutting disposal costs.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Washington State University, Biogas, Biofuel, Bacteria
Looking for an action cam that can take fish-eye 360° shots but don't have a lot of cash to splash? One option is the Akaso 360 Action Camera aimed at the budget-conscious beginner. We took an in-depth look at it to see how it stacks up.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
There aren’t many times in my life when I’ve seen a motorcycle command a price tag of over half a million dollars. But then again, there aren’t many motorcycles that come fitted with a 3.5-liter V8 engine from the Ferrari F355.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Ferrari, Custom, Custom Bikes, Crazy
In a particularly vibrant nightlife precinct of Shenzhen, in China, the main attraction may be a massive landlocked cruise ship that's been turned into hotels, bars and restaurants. But in its shadow, is an equally bizarre but less obvious novelty: a round structure that resembles a public restroom from afar, but on closer inspection is a 24-hour self-service beer stop where each tap's price changes based on demand. It's like playing the stock market, but your gains come in a giant plastic cup and your skill at pouring your brew of choice.
Category: Holiday Destinations, Outdoors
Tags: China, Payment Technology, Beer, Market, weird science
The James Brand launched the original Ellis knife in 2019 as its very first multitool. In fact, it wasn't just any multitool but the brand's own interpretation of a Swiss Army Knife, reimagined through simple, reduced design language. Now the tool is getting reduced even further, losing its extra fold-out implements in order to take on its slimmest form yet. Thinner than a pack of gum and shorter than an Apple TV remote, the new Ellis is designed to disappear away while barely being noticed ... right up until it's time to deploy.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: The James Brand, Knife, Multitools, EDC, Everyday Carry
Aotos' Flux X26 cyberpunk-tinged "hybrid" ebike has built on the buzz it generated at CES, raising nearly US$1 million in crowdfunding in two weeks. As well as offering an excellent launch price on the two models, the team has now expanded countries it'll ship to.
Tags: Kickstarter, ebikes, Motorbike, Adventure Bikes, Crowdfunding, Electronic, Sports, Outdoors and Camping
It is said that during the gold rush, people were so focused on gold that they forgot the “goldmine” that was shovels. In the AI and clean energy boom, where infrastructure and applications are the focus, one company is betting on the most fundamental of shovels: raw materials. Introducing Earth AI, an Australian-founded, US-headquartered mineral exploration company that uses artificial intelligence to discover critical mineral deposits faster and more efficiently.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Mining, Metals
Austrian company Tubolito is known for manufacturing bicycle inner tubes from TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane), a high-tech material originally used for smartphone speaker membranes. The material turned out to work very well for tubes, outperforming traditional rubber and latex options. TPU tubes are lighter, offer lower rolling resistance, and at the same time are highly robust.
Blackstar has not only crammed a guitar amp into a little box the size of a Bluetooth speaker, but also packed it with high-tech features to get a vast array of tones out of it to practice any style of playing, anywhere they'll tolerate you.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Amplifier, Guitar Effects, Guitar, Bluetooth Speakers, Speaker
Audi has built a new V16-engined multi-million-dollar mid-engined supercar… but it looks like a version of the Batmobile made by an eccentric backwoods mechanic using a pile of old aircraft bits.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Audi, Retro, Supercars, Classic Motor Cars, Reproduction
Google's just launched the Fitbit Air, a screenless wearable that slips onto your wrist to track your fitness activities, sleep, and other health stats. It's a lot like the Whoop Band and others you've seen on the market – and it comes in at a compelling price point without the need for a subscription to cover the basics.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Fitness, Health, Wearable, Artificial Intelligence, Fitbit, Google
The battery has long been the weak link of the electric bike. It degrades in the cold, ages poorly with fast charging, and rarely survives more than four years of heavy use. Ride1Up thinks it has a fix – and it's priced it for regular people.
Tags: ebikes, Moped, Pedal-assisted, Solid-state
It's long been thought that the type-2 diabetes drug taken by an estimated 20 million Americans was doing its heavy lifting in the liver, suppressing the production of glucose to regulate blood sugar. But new research has uncovered it's actually working its magic in the gut – which opens the door to the possibility of finding new compounds that perform the same function.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Northwestern University, Diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Gut-brain axis, Gut health
