This new tool you'll want on your belt looks like a Vernier caliper, but it's actually designed to beat the traditional monkey wrench at its own game – and then some.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Wrench, Kickstarter, EDC, DIY
Rice is one of the most widely grown staple crops, providing around 20% of the daily calorie intake for more than half of the world’s population.
Tags: Crops, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Genetic engineering, Agriculture
Far removed from its days as a synonym for "huge Class A motorhome," Winnebago is now known for a diverse lineup of on- and off-road RVs of all sizes. Building out its "Backcountry Series," the company adds its most ruggedly luxurious offering yet: the Arka truck camper. This off-grid expedition behemoth is prepared to spend up to 2 full weeks at a time in the deep, dusty backcountry. It's sure to have the Earthroamers and Krugs of the world peering back over their shoulders. Just don't expect a spa bathroom.
Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Winnebago, Truck, RAM, expedition vehicles, Overland Expo, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, RV
Ian A. Wright, Amy-Marie Gilpin, & Katherine Warwick, Western Sydney University / The Conversation
Category: Environment, Science
CycloKinetics, a US propellant company, has unveiled a new family of superfuels for aircraft, missiles, and rockets that increase fuel performance by 32%. Aimed at the defense market, the fuels could allow vehicles to fly farther while carrying heavier payloads.
The Byron Bay tiny house is a spacious model that's centered around an open kitchen and living area. The towable home also has multiple upgrades available, including an off-grid setup, and would be a good fit for small families.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Fraimic wants to turn AI art into something you can put on your wall, rather than forgotten images somewhere in your phone's gallery. And honestly? That's a pretty neat idea.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: E Ink, E-Ink, AI Art and Music, Creative AI, Home decor, Reviews
The US Army has selected three vendors to boost the service's night vision system into the 21st century by replacing the legacy system from over 20 years ago with the next-generation Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD).
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: elbit, Night Vision, US Army
After announcing last month that it had become the first Chinese lens manufacturer to create a full-frame autofocus zoom lens, this week Thypoch fully revealed its Voyager 24-50mm F2.8 lens for E-mount. The most eye-catching spec was probably its price: $649.
We were able to spend some time with the lens before it launched, shooting it in a variety of scenarios to see how it performs. You can check out our full coverage to read our impressions, but if you want to see for yourself, check out the gallery below.
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Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab.Thank you to Sony for the loan of an a7R V to capture this gallery. All images were processed using our standard lens workflow in Capture One, with no vignetting correction applied.
Rugged phones are not for everyone. They're generally huge and heavy, though most come with a long-life battery and all can withstand a beating. A relatively new name in the space has gone mini for a tough cookie that's also an actioncam.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Rugged, smartphones, Actioncam, Compact
Just when modern EVs are starting to feel like interchangeable tech pods on wheels, Renault has decided to bring a little romance back into the equation. The newly revealed open-top version of the Renault 4 E-Tech takes the retro-inspired electric hatch and gives it something the EV world desperately lacks these days – personality.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Renault, Convertible, Electric Vehicles, MINI, Fiat, Citroen
Norton Motorcycles’ comeback has been a long-documented story. The company has spent the better part of the last decade feeling like one of motorcycling’s great cautionary tales. Once a legendary British marque synonymous with Isle of Man glory and café-racer culture, the company disappeared into administration by 2020.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Norton Motorcycle, Superbike, V4, BMW Motorrad, Ducati, Supersports, TVS Motor
Back in the olden days of the previous millennium, long before the digital revolution compressed entire albums and even movies into ultra-high-fidelity files that users could download in seconds, hundreds of millions of people relied on physical tape to store albums on cassettes (or 8-tracks) and video on low-resolution VHS cassettes.
Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Memory, Tape, Adhesive
Unitree has just gone and made many a kid-at-heart's wildest dream come true. The Chinese robotics firm has created the GD01, a functional mecha suit that you can hop into and walk about on two legs or four.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: Unitree, Future Robot
This week, Sony announced the a7R VI, the latest entry in its lineup of full-frame cameras focused on maximum resolution and image quality. We were able to spend some time shooting a variety of subjects with it: portraits, wildlife, landscapes (of course) and even some action to really test the speed and capability of its stacked sensor and AF algorithms.
So far, we've been quite impressed with the detail this camera captures, both in our samples and in our studio scene. But this sensor's resolution is only part of the story, as Sony also says it sets a benchmark for dynamic range performance in its lineup. However, we'll have to wait until we can edit its Raw files before we can test and illustrate that, so keep an eye out for some Adobe Camera Raw conversions in this gallery once support becomes available.
Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab.If you think that the Rivian R1S is just the SUV version of the R1T pickup, you’re right. That doesn’t change how great it is. Mostly.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Rivian, SUV, Reviews, Electric Vehicles
Few of us enjoy the dentist – but next time you're in the chair, think about how lucky you are not to have been visiting a Neanderthal tooth doctor. New research on a single tooth from a Russian cave has found that its center is marked with the kind of grooves made by stone tools used as rudimentary drills.
Category: Archaeology, Science
Tags: Archeology, Neanderthal, ancient, Russia, Teeth, Tools
One of the world’s most dangerous birds may carry signals invisible to the human eye.
Tags: Birds, Australia, Animal science, Animals, Ultra-violet, Signal, Wildlife, Evolution, Behavior
It's been close to two years since Red Bull revealed the RB17, a low-slung aerodynamic hypercar teased as capable of generating nearly twice its own weight in downforce. Now, in 2026, we’re not too far away from the real thing.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Airstream trailers boast a lot of positives, but "cheap" and "lightweight" are not typically among them. In fact, we never expected to use those two terms in an Airstream description, but the new World Traveler trailer is in fact designed as a lighter, more affordable Airstream travel trailer option. True, it carries the big asterisk of being light and cheap *for an Airstream, but it does demonstrate clearly that the iconic Silver Bullet badge is continuing to adapt its near-century-old design to the changing trends of modern times.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Airstream, Caravan, trailers, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
