“Your touch lights me up” sounds like quite the romantic figurative statement, doesn’t it? Well, not anymore. Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an ultrathin, flexible electronic skin that lights up when touched, revealing exactly where pressure is being applied and how much, sort of like a skin with a screen. Dubbed the eLuminator, the device combines pressure sensing, measurement, and visualization in a single device.

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: National University of Singapore, Electronic skin, Touch

Heatbit makes a couple of clever home appliances that combine essential heating functions with Bitcoin mining – potentially earning you some money while you use them. Its latest product is designed to ensure you have hot showers on demand, and hopefully earn its keep in the process.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Heating, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

In a new twist on the phrase "two heads are better than one," the makers of the world's first biological computer has found that putting 15 of these synthetic brains together has resulted in their collective human neurons working better and smarter.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: organoid, neurons, Neural Network, Computers, Biocomputers, Chips

Indonesian architectural firm K-Thengono Design Studio has arranged a 712-sq-m (7,664-sq-ft) residence in South Tangerang around a split upper volume that connects a home cinema with a rooftop swimming pool and outdoor yoga area. Called Split Mass Residence, the home combines a planted green roof and landscaped gardens with an open interior layout designed to bring in daylight and encourage cross-ventilation.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: sustainable design, Interior Design, Green Roofs, Rooftop Garden

As part of my Joe Salas memorial tour of Rockport, South Texas, I spent some time with a handsome, well-appointed folding electric trike that offers a comfy, practical, relaxed getabout perfectly suited to life by the seaside... If you can handle the trike thing!

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Trike, Tricycle, ebikes, Reviews

French innovator Beauer has blown up the internet a couple times over the years with clever telescopic campers that condense to within the width of the tow vehicle before expanding nearly double or triple the size at camp. Previously, its largest expandable camper slept up to six people inside a 300-sq ft floor plan. This year, it reshuffles its lineup with a new model that offers even more capacity, sleeping a total of eight people. The new X8 is a towable retreat for large families, offering a kingly dining table, two sofa lounges, two bedrooms and sleeping berths for all eight occupants.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: trailers, Trailer, Beauer, Collapsible, RV, Caravan, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

Known for its distinctive product design and whimsical approach to making music gear, Sweden's Teenage Engineering (TE) is back at it with a multi-instrument amp that's got a fun side.

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Amplifier, Amplifiers

Seven years after the original fp, Sigma’s FP2 keeps the tiny full-frame formula intact while overhauling nearly everything inside it for snappier stills and much more serious video.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Sigma, Compact, Cameras, Full-frame, Mirrorless Cameras

There are cheap cars, and there are cheap BYD cars. The difference is the ability to make a wallet-friendly EV feel like anything but a budget compromise. The new Seagull doubles down on that formula, packing more space, more power, and technology that would have seemed wildly out of place in a sub-$10,000 car not too long ago.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: BYD, Electric Vehicles, China, EV Charging

The results of a landmark cancer vaccine trial demonstrate the power of treatments tailored to the person receiving them, hinting at a future where cancer treatments are personalized to seek out individual tumors based on their unique genetic signatures.

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Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: mRNA vaccines, Melanoma, Skin Cancer, moderna

Honda has just thrown a big surprise our way in the form of the CBR500R FOUR. It’s a middleweight alright, but it produces some serious numbers from a very high-revving four-cylinder engine. And not only is it launched, but it’s also confirmed to be heading to the West.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Honda, Honda Motorcycles, Sportsbikes

Researchers at Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute have developed an AI tool that determines your biological age and your chances of surviving challenging cancer treatment – all from a single photograph of your face.

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Category: Body and Mind

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Mass General Brigham, Imaging, Cancer, Aging

Parisian tent maker Exod pursues product design with the objective of "reshaping how humanity conquers the most remote corners of the Earth." So far, it's been chipping away at that objective one to four people at a time, with modestly sized offerings for tree and ground. With the all-new Base-01 tent, it takes a bigger bite out of "humanity, expanding out into full group camping territory. The Base-01 features an inflatable exo-frame holding up a weatherproof skin to serve as a transportable, fast-pitching sun shelter, mobile garage, mission control center, and roomy hostel for you and up to nine of your closest friends and allies.

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Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Tent, Inflatable, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-grid

Researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, are developing a substance that could one day protect people from deadly chemicals.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Northwestern University, Textile, Protection

This tiny house takes the look of a traditional mountain lodge and puts it on wheels. Named the Yukon Park Model, it's designed as a retreat for two and features a rustic aesthetic plus an open layout that makes it feel more like a cabin than a typical tiny house.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: House, Home, Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House

Many a shipwrecked sailor has wished that a survival kit complete with liferaft would drop from the sky. Now, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has completed a test using an orbital SpaceX Starfall reentry capsule to do just that.

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Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: US Air Force, SpaceX, Emergency

Insects have long been a source of inspiration for robotics engineers. They are small, agile, and can squeeze into spaces where people can’t. Such robots are very useful for space exploration, inspecting industrial equipment, and even carrying out search-and-rescue operations. For certain purposes, researchers turn real insects into cyborgs – which raises some ethical concerns – so sometimes, they build beetle-inspired robots from scratch.

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: KAIST, Biomimicry, Insect, locomotion, Remote Control, Artificial Muscles

Modern supercars often follow a similar script: outrageous power, expansive screens, aero components, and a price tag that could buy you a rather nice house. The formula works, of course, but it can also make the business of building an exotic car feel a little too predictable.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Supercar, Electric Vehicles, Hypercar, Porsche, 911, Retro, Gordon Murray, Aston Martin, Six-cylinder, Crazy, Interviews

Exploring the underwater world requires robots that can move as naturally as fish and, ideally, blend in as much as possible. That’s exactly what a research group at North Carolina State University has been working on.

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: North Carolina State University, Biomimicry, locomotion, Underwater

I went to Alabama on behalf of New Atlas to try out Volkswagen’s new Atlas. This play on words came up often, and I was pretty all-in on the whole thing.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Volkswagen, SUV, New Atlas, VW TSI, Reviews