The biggest change for the Outback’s 2026 redesign is immediately obvious. Subaru has completely abandoned the Outback's swoopy wagon profile for something taller, boxier, and more conventionally SUV-shaped.
Category: Automotive, Transport
When we think of game-changing weapons, it brings to mind hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, nuclear submarines, hypersonic missiles, and lasers. But one of the most significant weapons was a knife. New Atlas looks at the legendary Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: World War Two, Knife, Special forces, Weapon, xxShowcase
Polyend, maker of immensely cool drum machines, synths, and guitar pedals, is now working on a product for your desk. Keys combines a playable three-octave piano with a QWERTY keyboard you can use for work, composition, and performing.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Keyboard, MIDI, Controller
Smart rings are everywhere: smart rings that can record your verbal notes and send them to your cellular telephone for transcription, smart rings that let users pose questions to AI and get answers via earbuds, and smart rings that help athletes reach their peak performance.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Sweat sensor, UC San Diego
Hyundai’s luxury brand Genesis has spent the last decade successfully polishing its image without becoming a major global name.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Genesis, hyundai genesis, Hyundai, Luxury, Electric Vehicles, SUV
The budget action-camera market is a crowded one these days, with even GoPro having a crack at the space with its 4K basic Hero model released last year. But this robust all-rounder from XTU offers serious bang for your buck at just US$159.99.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Portable Video, Actioncam, 4k, Reviews, Video Cameras
When it comes to tiny houses, how small is too small? We're not sure where exactly the line is, but the Nido 5.5 m definitely doesn't cross it. Despite its compact dimensions, the home manages to provide a comfortable layout for two, all on one level.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
For decades, the recipe for a premium folding bicycle has been to engineer a smart hinge mechanism, choose your metal and fire up the welding torch. But when UK-based e-bike manufacturer Flit designed its latest flagship commuter machine – the M2i – the engineering team ditched the welding torch entirely.
Tags: Foldable bike, Foldable, Bikes, urban transport, Last-mile transport, ebikes
I don’t know how, but BYD manages to get these sorts of headlines almost every week. This time, it’s for the company’s latest crossover SUV – the weirdly named BYD FCB Ti 9 that promises a whopping 1,430-mile (2,300-km) combined range.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Chances are you’ve seen Hoberman spheres, those kinetic lattices made of joint-connected rods that, with a little manual effort, can contract or expand. Inspired by the ancient Japanese arts of origami (paper-folding) and kirigami (paper-folding-and-cutting), a team from Harvard University in the US and Tokyo University in Japan has developed expandable structures that, like Hoberman spheres, use rods and scissored joints. They’re calling them "collapsible scissored surfaces and pantographic lattices" ... although Hobegami would be much cooler and faster to type.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: Harvard, Tokyo University, Origami, Folding, Shape-shifting
To call the Apolosign 32-inch Portable Smart TV a "TV" isn't really doing it justice. It's actually a 32-inch Android 16 LCD tablet on wheels that has full Google Play Store compatibility. Pretty much anything you can do with an Android tablet or phone, you can do with the Apolosign, and in my opinion, that makes it way cooler than just a "TV."
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Smart TV, Android, Tablet, Reviews, Portable Video
For those who like firearm-inspired aesthetics, a new Kickstarter campaign may be worth a look. A new titanium EDC tool from Rixel is currently available for backing. At first glance, it looks like a pry bar, but it actually combines quite a few tools. And the coolest part – its screwdriver bit holder looks like a mini revolver.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Multitools, EDC, Titanium
3D-printed construction is still definitely on the cutting edge, but it's moving toward the mainstream remarkably quickly. The latest major stride comes from Denmark, where a team has completed what it calls Europe's largest 3D-printed housing project, creating a community of 36 self-contained student apartments.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: 3D Printing, Housing, Students, Building and Construction
Carroll Shelby must be resting happily in his grave, knowing his creation just became the most expensive American ever to be sold at an auction. That’s right, the 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe fetched US$42.905 million at Gooding & Christie's Auction.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Shelby, Auction, Most-Expensive, Ferrari, Record
Norway is getting a knowledge and experience center next year that's all about the whales that inhabit the waters near its northern coast. Fittingly, the building's form resembles one of these majestic sea creatures diving into the water.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
A protein-rich cookie made from plastic and agricultural waste could help solve two serious problems facing future generations, according to a team presenting results from their NASA-funded project at the Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Category: Chemistry, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Food waste, Nutrition, Plastics, Food technology, Yeast, Biotechnology
On paper, the OXS Thunder Duo X sounds too good to be true. At a glance, I thought it might be a little gimmicky. After I plugged the system in and fired up Modern Warfare 3, I finished the campaign with some thoughts ...
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Right then … we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Spanish motorcycle company Rieju seems to have made rebadging Chinese-made bikes its primary business model. This one is called the Scrambler 607, and it is basically a Marshal Scrambler 600 with a different name. So much for the “607”.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: urban transport
