Liter-class motorcycles haven’t exactly been accessible per se. Not just state-of-the-art superbikes that look like Greek goddesses, but even something as rugged and exposed as the Honda Africa Twin comes for upwards of $15,000. CFMoto clearly doesn’t like to play by the conventional rules, and its latest offering takes a direct shot at big-bore ADVs at a fraction of the price.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: CFMoto, Adventure Bikes, Off-road, KTM

There is a particular kind of automotive ridiculousness that I find charming. The 2026 Audi SQ5 is a family crossover with five seats, a useful cargo area, and all-wheel drive. It’s also capable of launching itself to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds. Because apparently groceries need to be accelerated urgently.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: SUV, Audi, Audi Quattro, Crossover, Reviews

As Ferrari revealed its first electric car to the public over the last few months, it first drew immense praise for the inventive interiors with a focus on physical controls.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Ferrari, Auction, Monterey Car Week 2026, Electric Vehicles

A new 19.9-meter (65-ft) tower rises like a brutalist-inspired, twisted monolith above its rural surroundings, providing a space for watching migratory birds that populate Wuhan's Chenhu Wetland, China.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: China, Engineering, Birds, nature, Art, Experience, Structure

The line between a pocket camera and a drone keeps getting blurrier, and HoverAir has just about erased it. The company, which helped pioneer the self-flying camera, has now shared full specifications for the Versa, the palm-sized gimbal camera it teased earlier this month. We covered the initial reveal when the Versa first broke cover, and this follow-up digs into the numbers behind the concept.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Flying-cam, Cameras, drones, Camera drone, Gimbals, Indiegogo, xxAffiliate

This new piece of EDC gear we've spotted looks like a handy little screwdriver with bit storage. However, it serves two additional functions beyond fastening that make it practical for more than just DIY projects and repairs.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: EDC, Titanium, Tools, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter

Watching skilled excavator operators work is almost hypnotic. They make it look so easy that the machine seems to move like an extension of the operator's own arm. That intuition usually takes years to build, but a new controller from MIT engineers compresses that learning curve to a single session.

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Robotics, MIT, Interface, Robotic construction, Construction

The mission to rescue NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory space telescope may be in need of some rescuing itself. Due to multiple malfunctions in the LINK spacecraft's attitude control system, space engineers have decided to abandon the boost attempt.

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Category: Space Systems, Engineering

Tags: Swift Satellite, NASA, Satellite

As sighted creatures, humans have always used light for communication through body language, writing, smoke signals, and more. Harnessing invisible frequencies of light such as radio massively expanded our communication range, while hyper-focusing light into lasers tremendously increased communication fidelity. And sending lasers through fiber optic cables meant communication that was free from the tyranny of straight line-transmission.

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Category: Engineering

Tags: Caltech, Light, Optical Computing

I want the camper van ... but without tying myself to one van. That's essentially what spinoff brand Hunker sells with its new slide-in camper system. An all-in-one camper van floor plan on roller skates, the Hunker Pod turns an empty Ram Promaster into a warm, inviting camper van with kitchen, dining area, queen bed and toilet – no time-sucking DIY conversion work, no six-figure custom build, and no bottomless pit of never-ending obstacles and expenses. The pod and van combined cost well less than most US-market fully built camper vans, and the Hunker Pod will even outlast the van itself, installing in a new van just as easily as the first time.

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Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: camper-in-a-box, Campervan, RV, Modular, RAM, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Van

Tiny houses come in all shapes and sizes nowadays. Some models push toward the upper limits of what can reasonably be considered a portable home, while others embrace extreme downsizing. Here are 10 of our favorites from both ends of the spectrum.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

It's that time of the year again – when nature photo competition winners are announced and we get to look at some amazing images that remind us that the world is made up of more than AI slop. For now, anyway.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Animal science, Photographers, Awards, Animals, Marine Biology, Ecology

Plans have been revealed for an ambitious wooden high-rise in Bellevue, Washington, that will set a new height record. The timber tower will rise to a height of 180 ft (54.8 m), making it the tallest mass timber office building in the United States once completed.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Building and Construction, Timber, cross-laminated timber, Office, Skyscrapers

Chinese mini-transport engineering company Blizwheel has spent years evolving lightweight electric scooters that fold like origami to become small enough to vanish inside a standard backpack. Its latest version is perhaps the best yet.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Electric Vehicles, Scooter

Personally, I’ve always loved the Yamaha XSR lineup. I think the 700 and 900 are brilliant-looking motorcycles that most people can hop on, ride practically anywhere, and have a ball while doing so. They offer something for modern motorcycle enthusiasts alongside a dose of authentic retro style.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Yamaha, America, Affordable, Kawasaki, Honda Motorcycles, Retro

Bacteria engineered to sense and reduce glucose levels could be the future of type 2 diabetes treatments, following pre-clinical trials on animal models.

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Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, Probiotic, Diet

Northrop Grumman has unveiled its Raid Hunter chain gun system, adding a new layer to anti-drone swarm defenses by combining cutting-edge AI sensors, precision-guided ammunition, and a motor-driven chain gun feed firing up to 200 rounds per minute.

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Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Northrop Grumman, Missile Defense, drones

We want faster and faster computers, and light is the fastest thing in the universe. Therefore, light-based computers should be awesome. Right? Not quite. Computing isn't always about data arriving fast. Sometimes it's about arriving on cue. We have learned how to force light to calm down, but today’s hardware matches a specific design to a specific speed. But how do we command light to arrive faster or slower, using the same hardware?

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Seoul National University, Light, Optical Computing, Photonics

Ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could simply fly above it all, straight to your destination? Well, that dream is one step closer to reality, as the world's first airport for flying taxis has just received the regulatory green light.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: eVTOL, urban transport, Electric Aircraft

Psychedelics are inherently chaotic drugs, dissolving the boundary between self and surrounds by sowing discord in the brain.

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Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Psychedelic Medicine, psilocybin, mental health, Brain, Pharmaceuticals, Monash University, neurons