While the ebike market has been under fire lately with regulatory stuffs, the stand-up scooter market remains pretty much untouched. I'm not sure why, exactly, as these things just keep getting more and more powerful.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Scooter, Reviews, Segway, Electric Motorcycles
Shooting down a drone with a fighter jet is as cost effective as wrapping sandwiches in gold foil, but BAE Systems has cut the price by firing an economy anti-drone Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) missile from a Typhoon Eurofighter.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: Typhoons, BAE Systems, drones, Missile Defense
Measuring just 130 sq ft (12 sq m), the Shoji is definitely smaller than the average tiny house. However, it makes up for its modest size with a space-saving multifunctional design.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Around the world, over two billion daily cups of coffee are consumed. That means there are a staggering amount of coffee grounds getting tossed away every day. Researchers now have a plan to turn all that waste into eco-friendly insulation.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: Biochar, Insulation, Coffee, Green+Technology, Recycling
Perhaps the "Eject" button on the Nikon D5 was aptly named...
Image: NASA (via r/ArtemisProgram)
It's an experience most photographers will be familiar with: you go to insert or eject your camera's card, fumble slightly, and the spring or ejection mechanism sends the card shooting out. If you're lucky, you catch it in time; otherwise, it tumbles to the ground.
It turns out that even astronauts aren't immune from this kind of gaff... but when it happens to them, the lack of gravity makes it all the more exciting. This week, a clip taken from NASA's livestream of the Artemis II mission around the moon has gone viral, showing what appears to be astronaut Christina Koch chasing after a card that shot out of her camera.
The moment is at 3 hours and 25 minutes.Unfortunately, you can only scroll so far back in NASA's official livestream (as it's still being broadcast), but the moment has been captured in several GIFs. You can also see it with the surrounding context on CBS News' archive, though it's only in a small part of the frame. Unfortunately, none of the clips currently available have audio of the moment.
Anyone who's been following the mission and looking at the photos taken during it will know that the crew is mostly using Nikon D5s, so the card is likely a CFexpress, XQD or CompactFlash model. (I'd guess the former, based on clips I found of another astronaut handling theirs relatively close up.) While I typically wouldn't expect this kind of slot to eject a card with much force at all, how things work on Earth isn't always a great indication of how they'll work in space without any gravity.
Thankfully, the Orion capsule is relatively small, so she was able to keep track of it and grab it within a few seconds and continue taking pictures. But it's a funny reminder of how things that are easy, or, at worst, little inconveniences on earth, can be much more difficult in a zero-gravity environment. Thankfully, Koch and her crewmates have been willing to put up with the camera-related difficulties they've encountered, because the photos produced by the mission have been incredible.
Fans crowd around a rookie baseball player who, an hour earlier, had broken the tie in overtime, winning the game. Kids offer him hats and baseballs to sign.
Photo: Mitchell Clark
Our April Editors' photo challenge theme is "Film Photography."
This month, we're returning to the analog roots of photography. The challenge is simple: show us your best photos shot on film. Any era, any format, any subject. Color or black and white. It's all fair game as long as it's an authentic film capture. If you can remember, please let us know which film stock you used! Our favorites will be featured on the DPReview homepage later this month!
This challenge is about the look of film, so please keep post-processing to a minimum. Technical corrections for scanning or color balancing aged film are welcome. We reserve the right to disqualify entries that appear over-processed.
Photos can be submitted between Sunday, April 12, and Saturday, April 18 (GMT). The challenge is open to photos captured at any time.
Important: Images MUST include a title and a caption of at least 25 words to be eligible. We need to be able to share the story behind your photo. We will consider both photos and captions when selecting our winners, so make sure to tell us that story!
Visit the challenge page to read the full rules and to submit your photos for consideration as soon as the challenge opens.
Submit your "Film Photography" photos to our April photo challenge
I like where Pebblebee's head is at with its newest product. Unlike most item trackers that only help you find your stuff a la AirTags, this one is also a personal safety device designed for quick access in an emergency.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Object Tracker, Safety
Samsung gave us a glimpse of a couple of seriously desirable lifestyle speakers for 2026 a couple of months ago, and I'm happy to report you can now get your hands on them.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Speakers, home theater, Samsung
During the last ice age, when glaciers spread across the northern world, ancient humans had some serious adapting to do; our species wouldn't survive without developing new ways to keep warm. We got there by improving the ways we clothed ourselves using new tools, such as bone needles, traps, snares, and wooden artifacts - and these creations mark a crucial point in human evolution, as they helped our ancestors endure diverse conditions across different latitudes.
Category: Archaeology, Science
The British Army and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have completed a multi-week test in Essex using drones, advanced sensors, and AI to speed up and make safer the hunt for deadly mines and munitions scattered on battlefields.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: British Army, Land Mines, drones, Artificial Intelligence
This tiny house keeps things simple with a single-level layout that sleeps up to two people. Named the Audrey, the home's compact but comfortable interior is well-suited for use as a vacation home or a guest house or similar.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
After nine days of journeying around the moon, the Artemis II mission has come to a successful conclusion with the crew landing safely in the Pacific Ocean on the evening of April 10. The lunar flyby portion of the trip lasted roughly seven hours, and the crew said they took over 10,000 images during that time alone, so there are an untold number of images from the entire mission.
While NASA hasn't uploaded anywhere near that many, the organization has been sharing plenty across various platforms, including its own website. We've been keeping our eyes on those photographs and have compiled a selection of our favorites from pre-launch through splashdown, which you can see at the bottom of this article.
The photographs are absolutely stunning simply for what they are, but the crew wasn't only taking them to create pretty images. They were also intended for scientific purposes, and there's a lot you can learn from them as a result. I'm no scientist, though, so I've really been enjoying listening to those who know more explain some of what's going on.
One such example is a video by Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator. In the video, Green walks through some of the photographs taken by the Artemis II crew, explaining in depth what we are looking at and providing additional context behind the photographs. For example, in one of the images of the Earth, Green points out the sodium line that goes all the way around the planet, explaining what it is and what its importance is.
Green also covers some things we photographers already know, such as why Earth looks so big in some shots (telephoto focal lengths), and some things caused by factors inherent to space, such as the surreal lighting in some shots. In his words: "Pictures are often worth a thousand words, but sometimes they are worth considerably more than that." It's a fantastic video, well worth watching all the way through.
CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut and Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen is seen taking images through the Orion spacecraft window during the Artemis II lunar flyby.
Photo: NASA
Artemis II pilot Victor Glover summed it up nicely when witnessing the eclipse from the spacecraft: "It is truly hard to describe." We can't wait to see even more from NASA once they are able to go through the enormous number of images and videos from these inspiring astronauts.
Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab.Here I am, talking about a scooter that is more powerful than most motorcycles that some people will ever own. And it doesn’t even come from the likes of Honda, Yamaha, or any other usual suspects. Rather, it comes from Kymco, a scooter manufacturer from Taiwan.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Beyond the rather low efficiency of today’s solar panels in converting the power of the sun into electricity, the transformational potential of solar energy is presently held back by battery storage technology.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Chemistry, Solar Power, UC Santa Barbara, Battery Technology
The very first motorcycle from a relatively new company is often a stepping stone. More often than not, it would likely be a small displacement street bike made for the masses with white-labeled components, barebones tech, and definitely not a liter-class engine.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: qjmotor, MV Agusta, Artificial Intelligence, Road Safety, Autonomous, Radar
Some of us get bitten far more often than others. A new study, yet to be peer-reviewed and published in a journal, has revealed that certain mosquito species show a clear preference for men, while others zero in on specific scents from our skin. However, some experts in the field disagree on the significance of the findings.
Sharrow knew it had a market disruptor on its hands the instant it transformed propeller blades into more efficient twisted loops. The hold-up of that disruption, however, has been in getting those props out of the factory and onto the actual market. Now it receives a big helping hand from a rather well-known fellow Detroiter: Ford Motor Company. Ford's expertise in 3D sand-casting technology has broken open Sharrow's path to scaled production, promising to fractionalize build times.
Tags: sharrow, Boating, Outboard Motor, Marine Innovations
Who could possibly compare to Superman, the Man of Steel? Definitely not a man of plastic! Right? Wrong. Researchers at the University of Sharjah, UAE, have discovered that plastics, in certain shapes, may perform as well as steel bars as reinforcement materials in concrete.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: Building and Construction, Concrete, Plastic
Peak Design, the company behind many popular camera bags and accessories, is making an L-bracket and is looking for people's input via a survey.
Given that the product is still in the works, details are relatively scarce, but that's where your answers come in. The survey collects basic information about you as a photographer – what types of photos you take, where you shoot, and which cameras you use – before getting into the specific questions about the upcoming bracket.
It asks whether you'd be interested if it has a quick-attach mechanism that lets it transform from a baseplate to an L-bracket, if you'd like a stowable accessory "similar to an AirTag," whether you care if there are add-ons like a cheeseplate or handstrap, and whether you own a Capture Clip and currently use it with an L-bracket. It also, of course, asks how much you'd expect to pay for such an accessory.
It's not particularly rare for Peak Design to send out these kinds of surveys. I recently got one asking about potential upgrades and additions to its lineup of photographer-focused bags, though those have yet to materialize. (Which is not a complaint, as I got that survey mere days after buying a new bag from them and would be sad to see it obsoleted so quickly.) But given how relatively popular the company's tripods and clips are with photographers, we figured it was worth sharing the survey so you could weigh in, in case this is the kind of product you're interested in.
While Hyundai's diverse Ioniq range of electric vehicles (EV) has been racking up awards around the world, it hasn't been available in China – until now. The Korean automaker is making a splash in that competitive electric car market with a big launch – and the unveiling of two wild concept vehicles that are worth a closer look.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Concept Cars, Hyundai, Sedan, SUV, China
