The traditional method of beekeeping – using heavy frames that hold the honey, and large extractors that do the harvesting – can be a grubby, physically demanding, time-consuming procedure that takes up a large amount of space along with the hazards of being stung or harming the bees.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Food technology, Bees, Urban Beehives, Honey
Commissioned for a customer who wants to enjoy a nomadic retirement, the Tiny Birdy has a compact interior layout that sleeps up to two people and runs fully off-grid with solar power.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Adobe has announced Premiere 26, the latest version of its video editing software that brings a useful feature out of beta, adds support for the R3D NE Raw files that Nikon introduced with the video-focused ZR and comes with a subtle change to the program's name.
The flagship new feature of Premiere 26 is Object Masks, which the company started publicly beta testing late last year. It updates the editor's built-in masking tools to make it much easier to select a specific subject in your video, such as a person or object, and cut it out so you can apply effects to it independently from the background (a process video editors will know as "rotoscoping"). Like Final Cut's similar "Magnetic Mask" feature, Premiere can then track the mask forwards and backwards through the footage, so it follows the subject and adapts its shape as it or the camera moves. Of course, the program allows you to tweak the mask it generates, if the AI behind it doesn't create a perfect cut out.
While it took a long time for Premiere to get support for Nikon's proprietary NRaw video codec, things have moved a little faster with the company's latest format, R3D NE. Just a few months after the camera that debuted the format launched, Adobe has added native support for it to Premiere, letting you edit and color grade R3D NE footage.
The updated Adobe Stock panel.
Image: Adobe
The update also brings updated versions of the Frame.io and Adobe Stock panels, making it easier to pull media from your own projects and elsewhere into your edit. However, perhaps the most interesting (though most superficial) is that Adobe seems to have taken a cue from The Social Network and Final Cut by dropping a word from the program's name: the app, formerly known as Premiere Pro, is now simply Premiere. During a briefing, Adobe representatives said this subtle rebranding doesn't signal a move away from it being a tool for professionals; instead, it seems to be Adobe just accepting that most editors were already just referring to it as "Premiere" anyways.
Premiere 26 is available for Creative Cloud subscribers to download starting today.
If you work on cars, furniture, or electronics often, it helps to have a good set of screwdrivers handy. The Revolver S from EDC upstart IdeaSpark fits six driver bits into a rugged little titanium body to make it easy to carry these wherever you go, with a precise ratchet mechanism to boot.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Tools, Kickstarter
You might be more familiar with it as a versatile fibrous material or the staple food of giant pandas, but bamboo has now entered the health-food realm thanks to the first review into its dietary benefits. Those include aiding blood sugar regulation, fighting inflammation and improving gut health.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Bamboo, Anglia Ruskin University, Plants, Plant-based diet, Anti-inflammatory, Fiber, Antioxidant, blood-glucose
I wouldn’t blame you if you haven’t heard of Great Wall Motor Company (GWM) by now. But you probably have heard about Souo S2000, the monstrous eight-cylinder, two-liter cruiser bike from China. Now it’s reportedly coming to the US.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Great Wall Motors, China, Touring, Six-cylinder, ces-2026
Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, which scientists long viewed as evolutionarily neutral since vitamin C from diet compensated for the loss. But new research suggests that the deprivation of this essential molecule was not an innocuous evolutionary shift but actually a clever defense against parasitic infections.
When you think about it, it's kind of crazy that pro cyclists are capable of exceeding the urban speed limit for motorized vehicles, yet the only protective gear they wear is helmets. That's why one company has now developed a wearable airbag system.
Tags: Airbags, Cycling, Road Safety
Even a device as simple as a computer mouse still has plenty of room for improvement. Modern versions are becoming lighter, more ergonomic, and often even look nothing like their traditional counterparts. The NanoFlow i2 Air incorporates some revolutionary features and is now available for backing on Kickstarter.
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Mouse, Portable
Though I'm using my fingers more, most of the time I pluck the strings of my guitars with a pick. Most of them have been made from plastic, but I've tried metal and even small coins. But never titanium – which makes the ResoTi an intriguing project.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Guitar, Titanium, EDC
Instead of focusing on your sore arm after your next vaccine, you might want to think good thoughts. A new study that trained people in the power of positive thinking showed that the practice can significantly boost antibodies created by the jab.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Vaccines, antibodies, placebo, Tel Aviv University, The Immune System
Photos: Mitchell Clark
Late last year, Tamron announced that it was bringing its venerable 70-180mm F2.8 Di III VC VXD G2 to Nikon's Z mount. We took the opportunity to shoot a sample gallery with it, to get an idea for how it performs, and how much it asks you to give up compared to a heavier, larger and more expensive 70-200mm F2.8.
That is a bit of a spoiler for what the experience of shooting with the lens was like. Its size makes it much more usable as an everyday walkabout lens than your typical 70-200mm F2.8, and I found myself taking it places I normally wouldn't bring this class of lens, just because it'd be too much of a hassle to do so.
Even extended, the Tamron 70-180mm F2.8 Di III VC VXD G2 isn't particularly long (unlike its name).The autofocus motors in the lens were snappy enough that I never felt like they were holding the camera back, even when I was shooting fast-moving subjects like horses. I also appreciated the lens's inclusion of optical image stabilization, which, when paired with the Z8's in-body stabilization, let me get sharp handheld shots at shutter speeds that would typically be difficult to manage with a telephoto lens.
Optically, you do give up a bit compared to the more premium options; as evidenced by several photos in our sample gallery, there's some pretty heavy vignetting at F2.8, though it's noticeably better at F4, and pretty much clears up by F5.6. There's also, of course, the 20mm difference at the long end, though in most scenarios, most photographers won't really notice the difference between a photo shot at 180mm and one shot at 200mm. The lens is also reasonably sharp throughout its range, and has relatively pleasing bokeh wide-open.
The vignetting will be most noticeable when shooting relatively bright, featureless surfaces like the sky, and is less distracting in other situations.
Nikon Z8 | Tamron 70-180mm | 180mm | F2.8 | 1/200 sec | ISO 80
Finally, there are the controls. The lens has a single customizable button, which is always a nice inclusion, and Nikon allows you to assign a wide variety of functions to it. I also appreciated the inclusion of a lock switch to keep the lens retracted. It's an extending zoom design (which isn't my favorite, but makes sense given its size), and having the ability to keep it from walking while I was carrying it around was much appreciated. However, it's worth noting that it's quite a strong lock; unlike with some of Sigma's lenses, you can't overpower it if you forget to deactivate it before raising the camera up to your eye.
My biggest complaint with the lens is the focus ring, which is quite sensitive, and is situated exactly where I'd typically rest my hand. This led me to frequently bump the camera into manual focus mode at inopportune times. If I spent long enough with the lens, I'm sure I'd adapt to it (and the focus ring's location will be more familiar to those who only shoot Nikon), but I ended up simply setting it to do nothing in the camera's settings.
The buttons are nice to use, but the focus ring can be quite touchy, and doesn't leave you much room to hold the lens.Minor complaints and personal preferences aside, I found the Tamon 70-200mm F2.8 Di III VC VXD G2 to be a capable and versatile lens, especially for the price. But be sure to check out the gallery below so you can make your own assessments.
Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab.Luxury automakers are getting serious about architecture. Following its Miami skyscraper and Dubai tower, Mercedes-Benz has now really put its foot on the gas to collaborate on building no less than 12 new skyscrapers in Dubai.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Residential towers, Mercedes-Benz, Dubai
Talaria might be a Chinese company, but it’s done more for the dirt bike segment than most European and American companies. Its low-cost dirt bikes have popped up as viable alternatives to the likes of SurRon, Cake, and Segway. This one, though, promises to take on 450cc gas four-strokes.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Electric Motorcycles, Dirt Bikes, ebikes, Enduro, Segway, Sur-Ron, Zero Motorcycles
Ukraine has, for the first time, sent into combat a hybrid drone powered by hydrogen fuel. According to the builder Skyeton, a variant of its Raybird was deployed for full-scale combat duty with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in an active war zone.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Ukraine , drones, Hydrogen, Warfare, Battlefield
It seems like you can't even hide from drones under the sea now, with General Atomics (GA) flight-testing its MQ-9B SeaGuardian maritime patrol unit. It was trying out the new Expanded Sonobuoy Dispensing System (ESDS) for hunting submarines where they hide.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: US Navy, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Submarine, drones
Hyundai's sleek, futuristic Staria van has been destined to make a cool, little camper van since it first emerged in 2021. And it didn't take long for that to happen, at least not in South Korea. Now, a couple days after revealing the all-electric Staria, Hyundai is previewing what a Staria camper van might look like in the Western world. And despite not having the slide-out rooftop deck of some clever Korean campers, it looks quite good, especially coming directly from Hyundai. Is it convincing enough to take on the likes of the Volkswagen California and Ford Nugget?
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Hyundai, Campervan, RV, Camping, cmt-2026, Outdoors and Camping, electric-camper, smart RV
How much protection does your bicycle helmet offer? It might be less than you think, but Newlane’s latest helmet combines protection and convenience into a single package.
Tags: Helmets, Safety, Brain, Protection
We previewed the RedMagic 11 Pro last year, but with any technology it feels better to have a real-world, lived experience with it. And as someone who hasn't used an Android device for 13 years, it was about time I tried again – given that Apple continues to offer a little more bang for a lot more buck.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Smart technology, smartphones, Gaming, Battery, Phone, Android, Reviews
I took this photo while touring Astoria, Oregon, solely to explore the sites featured in the 1985 movie The Goonies. The photo depicts the driveway sign leading up to the house where some of the Goonies kids lived.
Photo: Mathew Anderson
Our January Editors' photo challenge theme is "Silly Signs."
This month, we're celebrating the silly and strange world of signage that tells an interesting story. Whether you're traveling across the country or just around the corner, capture a photo of a sign with a unique story to tell. It could be a massive billboard along a highway or a quirky notice in your local pub. We can't wait to see what you discover!Photos can be submitted between Sunday, January 18, and Saturday, January 24 (GMT). The challenge is open to photos captured at any time.
Important: Images MUST include a title and a description of at least 25 words to be eligible. We need to be able to share the story behind your photo. We will consider both photos and captions when selecting our winners, so make sure to tell us that story!
Visit the challenge page to read the full rules and to submit your photos for consideration as soon as the challenge opens.
