When we first spotted the Italian brand "Cubivan" at the Düsseldorf Caravan Salon this past weekend, we assumed it was another in the burgeoning market of complete in-van camper pods, or maybe a boxy camper module built to go on top of a van chassis. Both guesses were kind of right, but neither quite prepared us for what the system really is. Not only does the camper box slide out the back of the van like others we've seen, it expands right down to the ground to create a sheltered space that lives in perfect symbiosis with the base van. It's then able to fit both a kitchen and wet bathroom and is complemented by a hard-sided rooftop pod that completes the feeling that your vehicle has been commandeered by some form of industrial being ... but a kind one there to serve.

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Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: camper-in-a-box, Modular, mini-campervan, Campervan, Foldable, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

Following over a decade of development, costing around one billion dollars, and requiring a team of over 150 architects, engineers, and designers, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is now finally complete. Looking like a strange spaceship has landed in Los Angeles, the incredible building holds a huge amount of art dedicated to storytelling – everything from Star Wars props to ancient Egyptian pottery.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Building and Construction, Museum, Cinema, Art, MAD Architects

From Korean cosmetic sperm injections to experimental peptides, the wellness industry has become one of the world's most lucrative, projected to be worth nearly US$10 trillion by 2029. Yes, that's $10,000,000,000,000.

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Category: Body and Mind

Tags: Nutrition, Microbiome, Inflammation, Health, Age-Related, Gut health

Scientists have uncovered a new pathogen transmitted to humans from ticks, reminding us that one of the biggest threats to our health is zoonotic disease.

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Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Minnesota, Tick, Zoonotic, Influenza, Virus, Risk factors

Every second counts in a high-paced, high-tech world. Except when it shouldn’t.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Time, Measured, Clock, Word clock

You can’t brighten a room with darkness, you can’t dry a towel by soaking it, and you surely can’t cool things with heat. Right? Well, maybe. Scientists have just built a solid-state cooling device that can use heat to generate cold, potentially opening a way for processors and other hot-running electronics to recycle some of their own waste heat for cooling.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, Shape Memory Alloys, Cooling, Solid-state

Dragon Tiny Homes regularly impresses us with its ultra-portable models. However, with this newest iteration of its Vista, the firm has maintained its usual road-ready size while packing in some notable features, including an open living area with a home office, plus a full kitchen.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Epoxy is one of the great unifiers of modern materials science, bringing different materials together to form composites with combined properties that exceed those of any individual component. The problem is that once conventional epoxy cures, the resulting union is practically permanent. Separating the constituent materials for recycling can be extremely difficult.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Empa, Recyclable

Lumbar support braces designed to provide relief from chronic low back pain may not be as effective as people have been led to believe, with scientists finding that recommendations are based on low-quality evidence.

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Category: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: Milan, Low back pain, Chronic pain, Aging, Age-Related, Medication

After ruling the luxury SUV roost for over half a century, the Range Rover is finally available in a fully electric version. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says it's worked on this for the last decade, and filed more than 300 patents along the way to bring it to life.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Jaguar Land Rover, Range Rover, Electric Vehicles, SUV, Off-road

I've used a million printers over my decades of being a computer nerd and a professional photographer. I used to print professional 11 x 14 matte images like they were going out of style on the ol' Canon Pixma Pro9000. Less so these days with e-ink frames and everything being so digital now. But the Pixcut S1 ain't that kind of printer ... this thing can print and cut stickers! And who doesn't love stickers?

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Printer, DIY, Photo, Inkjet, Reviews

"American excess" is a simple term that points at the United States' tendency toward materialistic overconsumption. As a culture, we aim for what we want, not necessarily what we need. So when you see a massive overland RV with an extra axle and a big, proud Ford badge all capped out in its gape, it'd be easy to slap that "American excess" label on it without thinking twice. But in the case of the new 6-wheeled Ford Ranger Super Duty expedition rig from Kerkamm, that Blue Oval badge is the only American thing about it. If anything, this one is German excess, and it looks like just the right amount.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Ford, expedition vehicles, RV, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026

Tiny houses rarely fit as many as six people under one roof. And even if they do, it usually involves some residents roughing it on a sofa bed. The Cascade Park Model Home takes a different approach and has a spacious layout that features two bedrooms downstairs, plus a loft space that can serve as a third bedroom.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

There are a few pretty well-known trade-offs associated with desktop 3D printing. Faster speeds generally mean a compromise in quality, multi-color 3D printers often waste some filament, and higher volume loads usually demand more hardware. LightMake’s L4 Kickstarter project aims to tackle all these issues head-on.

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Category: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Engineering

Tags: Kickstarter

Some motorcycle brands die. Others simply refuse to stay dead. Bultaco belongs firmly in the latter camp. The legendary Spanish marque disappeared from the motorcycle scene decades ago, leaving behind a trail of lightweight two-strokes, racing trophies and enough cult following to keep its name alive long after the factory doors had closed.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Bultaco, Spain, Retro, Adventure Bikes, cafe racer, Racing

China has spent the last decade proving it can build some genuinely wild machines. Electric sedans with four-figure horsepower figures, plug-in hybrids that can supposedly travel farther than some diesel trucks, and enough screens inside a cabin to make an electronics store nervous.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: China, SUV, Land Rover, Range Rover, Jeep, defender

There’s something unusually exciting about opening the ESPHome Starter Kit. This isn’t just another ESP32 development board. It’s the first official hardware product from ESPHome, which has quietly become one of the foundations of the DIY smart home. That feels significant.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, DIY, Smart Home

Xiaomi’s REDMI Note 17 lineup just landed last week, with four models: the Note 17, Note 17 5G, Note 17 Pro 5G, and the first-ever Note 17 Pro Max 5G.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Xiaomi, smartphones, Batteries

Tesla quietly rolled out its Cybercabs in Austin, Texas yesterday. That's the company finally making good on its plan bring these vehicles on to public roads about two years after they were first revealed.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Robotaxi, Tesla Motors, Cabs, Ride-sharing

In the 1960s Hanna Barbara animated series The Flintstones, prehistoric human beings lacked modern technology, so they used ancient animals (including dinosaurs, who for some reason in this universe lived at the same time people did) as household appliances and industrial machinery. And, for extra-cheap laffs, these animals routinely mugged to the camera about how awful their lives were at the hands of the humans misusing them.

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Category: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Engineering

Tags: MIT, Safety, Packaging