All right, I admit it, I have a thing for affordable off-road electric motorcycles. There’s just something about a battery-powered, inexpensive dual sport that’s quiet, filled with torque, and almost as light as a lawn mower. Heck yeah!
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Juiced Bikes, Electric Motorcycles, Off-road, Dirt Bikes, Sur-Ron, Segway, ebikes
Bicycle tail lights have a way of playing second fiddle to their brighter, more interesting headlight siblings. We're sure you'll agree, however, that the Hi-Tail is one tall, telescoping tail light that definitely won't be "outshined."
Tags: bike lights, Cycling, Road Safety
The Cabarita tiny house strikes a nice balance between spaciousness and portability. Designed for small families or full-time downsizers wanting a little extra space, the home features a light-filled and open interior with two bedrooms.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Huawei's latest XPixel smart headlights upgrade automotive lighting from a safety feature into a full-color projection system that can play movies, render games, and guide drivers – all from the front of the car.
Category: Technology
Tags: Huawei, Headlight, Projectors
Sleep loss is often one of the most challenging symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s, affecting patients long before memory loss and a formal diagnosis is made. New research from the University of Kentucky has likened poor sleep to a canary in a coal mine, an early symptom of neurodegeneration that could serve as a potential new biomarker to identify the disease.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Brain, Dementia, Tau protein, University of Cambridge, University of Kentucky, Sleep, Sleeping, Insomnia
If you want to pilot a container ship into Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, you'd better be good. Navigating the Long Tau river requires these deep-sea leviathans to turn on a dime, making for some spectacular viewing.
Tags: shipping containers, Shipping, Ships, Video
Ahmed Elbediwy & Nadine Wehida, Kingston University/ The Conversation
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Vitamins and minerals, Diet, Cancer Tissue
Volkswagen withdrew its classic Transporter vans (Eurovan) from the American market after the 2003 model year, thus putting a fast end to a romantic decades-long era of great American road trips. The tiny, breezy VW camper vans that had symbolized the open-ended freedom of the road were no more ... at least so far as brand-new models were concerned. The American camper van industry was never quite the same after that, scrambling its way upmarket to larger, more customized vehicles that now commonly price above luxury SUVs. But that dark near-quarter century of American RV history is coming to an end as Volkswagen announces a new factory camper van.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: mini-campervan, Campervan, electric-camper, RV, Volkswagen, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Times are weird, and I guess weird times call for weird measures. At least, as per Honda, which thinks it's about time electric motorcycles replicated the old-school feel of gas bikes.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Honda Motorcycles, Patent, Electric Motorcycles, Zero Motorcycles, Kymco
Arcade machines are large, heavy, and take up a lot of space. Even though they're fun and have a cool retro look, they can definitely feel out of place in people's homes. And that’s fair – not everyone wants their living room to look like a 1990s pizza restaurant. But what if you could own a machine that was easy to put away when not in use? That’s exactly the idea behind Swap Arcade.
Category: Games, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Video Games, Gaming, Furniture, Transformable
The Black Butte tiny house uses some clever interior design ideas to create an open and storage-packed layout that still makes room for some nice touches, including a bathroom with a freestanding tub.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
For years, machines have navigated the world color-blind. LiDAR sensors – the laser-based eyes of self-driving cars, industrial robots, and inspection drones – build precise 3D maps of their surroundings, but everything is built of monochrome geometric shapes. Ouster's new Rev8 sensor family aims to change that, not by bolting a camera onto a LiDAR unit, but by fusing color directly into every point of data the sensor captures.
Category: Technology
Tags: LIDAR, Colors, All-in-one, Chips
There probably isn’t any other bikemaker in the world that’s more synonymous with scooters than Kymco. It ranks right up there among top global scooter brands like Honda, Yamaha, and Piaggio/Vespa. Even in the USA, it’s relatively well-known, despite its small dealer footprint when compared to those other brands.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Scooter, Kymco, Touring, BMW Motorrad, Honda Motorcycles
San Diego has a deep connection to America's military and naval forces, and it'll soon be home to a marvelous institution to showcase the history, legacy, and future of the Navy SEALs.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Museum, US Navy, Building and Construction, Building Facades
Mexico City is trapped in a dangerous feedback loop.
Category: Environment, Science
New research shows that small changes in diet practiced for less than a calendar month can potentially improve your biological age – supporting the key functions that together lead to healthier lives later in life.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Sydney, Aging, Age-Related, Biological age, Blood Pressure, Insulin, Chronic illness, Inflammation, Health
More than 80 years after the world-famous Trinity test showed humanity what to expect from an atomic detonation, researchers are still sifting new discoveries out of its twisted remains.
Alex Brown & Grace Owen, Durham University/ The Conversation
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: pandemic, black-death, History
It was cold – but nowhere near what I expected; I’ve been colder in an outdoor swimming pool in Australia. It's part of a global feedback loop, the scale of which I only began to comprehend when I saw this remarkable continent for myself.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Antarctic, Climate Crisis, Penguins, Sea-level rise, Ice, Features, xxShowcase
Built for the type of fast, remote motorized adventure that can go wrong in a hurry, the new Pocket Winch from startup Dragan Systems aims to be the lightest, most portable come-along out there. It fractionalizes weight while still multiplying muscle enough to move up to 2,000 lb (907 kg) of stuck vehicle, trail-blocking deadfall or whatever else stands in the way of open-ended adventure. Chuck it in your Africa Twin's pannier and have an instant backup plan if things go sideways.
Tags: Adventure Bikes, Off-road, Mountain Bikes, Motorcycle Gear
