Peugeot has launched its first ever electric GTi with an image of the new car alongside a 40-year-old Peugeot GTi. Not many new car launches would be so brazenly retro. Aren’t EVs bought by forward-looking motorists rather than lovers of the past?
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Peugeot, Electric Vehicles, Hot hatch, Performance
For years, DJI's Osmo Pocket has been the default choice for creators who want cinematic-quality video in a compact, stabilized package. DJI didn't just define the pocket gimbal camera, it owned it, almost without competition. That has just changed, with Insta360 and Leica jointly launching the Luna Ultra.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Camera, Gimbals, Insta360, DJI Innovations, Content, Digital Video
Kawasaki just did the unpredictable. Just when most of us thought the era of two strokes was over, the Japanese bikemaker has just released its first big two-stroker in more than two decades.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Kawasaki, Two-stroke, Enduro, Off-road, Dirt Bikes
The world's largest earthworks, millions of work hours, and huge sums of money have all gone into pursuing the dream of a supertall mirrored desert city in Saudi Arabia. However, a recent report suggests it might all turn out to be a mirage.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Australia's camper vans generally pale in comparison to its bombproof off-road camper trailers. But if there's one name building camper vans fit to be hitched in towing tandems with the likes of the Track Tvan and Mosfab Cosmos, it's Trakka. The Sydney-area builder has a long history of turning Volkswagen's variably-sized vans into Outback-ready expedition machines. Now it focuses its attention on turning the T7 Transporter, VW's newest van, into a more versatile, rugged California-style camper van with an options sheet that trumps VW's own. And this time around, it adds a whole new twist.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Trakka Campers, Campervan, Volkswagen, Ford, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, RV, Outdoors and Camping
Three years ago, a single “ghost particle” soared into the Mediterranean with more energy than any ever observed before.
Tags: Neutrino, Quasar, Particle physics, Astrophysics
Lightship is part of the new guard of Silicon Valley-based high-tech electric camper builders. It became one of the first self-powered trailer pioneers to market when it began production of its AE.1 telescoper last summer. Now it's launching a different type of self-driving, battery-bulked electric trailer, one that could have an even bigger impact on how the world tows. The all-new Powersled is a simpler cargo trailer based on a chassis outright overflowing with lithium battery power. It shoulders thousands of pounds, then serves as a mobile power station on arrival.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Outdoors and Camping, electric-camper, Self-Driving, trailers, Trailer, Cargo, Commercial, Off-grid
Neil Mabbott, University of Edinburgh/ The Conversation
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Vaccines, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Bats, Machine Learning
In a new MIT study – in partnership with Purdue, Northwestern, and Duke universities – chemists have discovered that inserting weaker bonds into polystyrene actually makes the material more resistant to damage.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: MIT, Duke University, Purdue University, Rubber, Plastics, Polymer, Rubber, Northwestern University
In the constant balancing act between portability and comfort typical of tiny house design, the Berenstein Bear comes down firmly on the side of comfort. The extra-wide model provides a spacious interior that includes a large living area, a generous kitchen, and even a bathtub.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
There's a rebellion underway against the always-on, infinitely-scrollable nature of the smartphone. Younger shooters in particular are reaching for more tactile, intentional ways to capture everyday life, from phone-free concerts and clubs to a renewed love of lo-fi, washed-out aesthetics. Instant film, with its limited shots and instant physicality, fits that mood perfectly.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Polaroid, Instant Photography, Cameras, Compact
Every day in the US, an average of 6,000 women enter menopause.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Vermont, Menopause, Cognitive functioning, ADHD, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Women, Age-Related, Brain, neurons, Hormones, estrogen
The latest camper from Mammoth Overland takes two of the brand's most creative launches of the recent past and fuses them together into a prepper-grade wilderness and apocalypse survival safe room built for immediate escape. Whether you're trying to keep away apex predators on regular camping or hunting expeditions, or getting out of dodge during a rapidly evolving "extinction level event," the Mammoth XLE might be the best civilian vessel in the world to have hitched up to your 4x4.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Caravan, trailers, Trailer, Survival, Emergency, Shelter, RV, Overland Expo, Off-grid, Off-road, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Astronomers have uncovered a surprising twist in the Milky Way's story.
Tags: milky way, Stars, Astrophysics
In a historic first, two US Army crew members from an AH-64 Apache helicopter forced down near the coast of Oman were rescued within two hours by a US Navy Saronic Corsair drone boat operated by the 5th Fleet's Task Force 59.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: US Army, US Navy, Autonomous Vehicles
Eef Hogervorst, Loughborough University/ The Conversation
Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Dementia, Allergies, Medication, antihistamines
Most of nature – including humans – is symmetrical, and as creations reflect their creators, many robots we create today feature this symmetry, with the general assumption that symmetry is best. Researchers at Duke University have challenged that assumption with Argus, a sea-urchin-like robot that ditches conventional symmetry altogether.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Nature has long served as a source of inspiration for scientific innovations. Many animals have evolved defensive features such as skins, shells, and scales to protect themselves from predators. Because protective mechanisms are essential in both biological organisms and engineered systems, a lot of these features have already been adopted in modern technologies. Recently, researchers from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University drew inspiration from the armadillo and its unique self-defense mechanism.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: North Carolina State University, Armor, Biomimicry, Self-defense
Retrofitting a port berth with shore power can take anywhere from three to seven years of permitting, construction, and grid upgrades. Now, a UK company has developed a floating hydrogen-powered platform and can make that wait disappear without having to move a single brick.
