If you like quirky bicycle-related inventions, then this list is definitely for you. Yes, it's time once again to present our Top 10 bike products from the past year, that really "did things differently from the rest."
Tags: Cycling
If SUVs were cocktails, the 2026 Mercedes-Benz GLE would be an old-fashioned. The bartender won’t raise an eyebrow and you’ll get what you expected without any bougie pretense.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, SUV, Reviews
Over the last few years, smart rings have entered the wearables space to offer an alternative form factor for health tracking and other connected functionality alongside fitness trackers and smartwatches. From the sound of recent announcements, it looks like a new type of digital jewelry will grace your finger: the ultra-compact AI ring.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Fingers, Artificial Intelligence, Gadgets
2025 has been a big year for wild ideas and we've decided it's high time to look back and highlight the best. From building a skyscraper in a rural Alpine village, to massive animal-like power line pylons, here's our favorite examples of unusual architecture.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Best of 2025, Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Art, Saudi Arabia, Oddball
If you’re shopping for a used car, you know just how instrumental the smallest details are. Price, brand, mileage, condition… you’re probably juggling everything at once, trying to find the perfect car that offers a mix of all these attributes. But here’s the most important factor you’re probably missing: reliability.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Reliability, Tesla Motors, Lexus, Toyota
Dinosaurs may be long extinct, but 2025 made it abundantly clear that they’re anything but settled science. Over the past year, new fossils, reanalyses of famous specimens and the use of increasingly sophisticated tools have continued to upend what we thought we knew about how these animals lived, moved, fed and evolved.
Tags: Dinosaurs, Paleontology, Archeology, Bones, Historic, Extinction, Evolution, Best of 2025, Animal science
A couple of months back we reported on an e-mobility spin-off from Rivian that launched a modular ebike that rides without a chain or belt. Pre-orders for the T-MB are now open, but Also is already looking to protect your noggin with a light-packing smart helmet.
We certainly saw some major health-related breakthroughs in 2025, including a universal cancer vaccine and human trials for the world's first treatment to reverse spinal cord injuries. But the year was also filled with smaller findings that can still have a big impact on your day-to-day health.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Health, Exercise, Fitness, Diet, Well-being
If you're chionoandrophobic, we recommend looking away now. Standing about 62 ft (19 m) tall, measuring roughly 46 ft (14 m) long and 36 ft (11 m) wide, 2025's largest snowman has been erected in northeast China. The smiling icy monster required some 124,000 cubic feet (3,500 cubic meters) of snow, and has already become a big tourist attraction in the city of Harbin.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: China, Snow, Winter, Construction
From water-skipping robots to elephant-skin inspired cooling materials, engineers have continued to find inspiration in nature in order to move technology forward for humans.
Category: Science
Tags: Engineering, Biomimicry, Animal science, Green+Technology, Robotic construction, Robot, nature, sustainable design
HiSense has already put out a bunch of impressive projectors to suit different needs this year – and with the upcoming XR10, it appears to have pulled out all the stops to tempt laser home cinema enthusiasts.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
I know I sounded pretty excited when I talked about Valve's Steam Frame headset for VR gaming recently. But let's be honest, that and every other headset are about as subtle as a foghorn in a library. A South Korean hardware brand wants to make your pastime of escaping into immersive content a little less conspicuous, by sneaking a headset into a pair of mostly nondescript headphones.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Headphones, Head Mounted Displays, Immersive Media, 3D, ces-2026
Beginning sourdough bakers can lessen their struggles with Crustello, a Kickstarter from American AI tech company Race Box. It takes the stress out of being a helicopter parent of a sourdough starter kit, by modernizing an ancient baking method.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Kitchen, Food, Kickstarter, Cooking
At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long before it ever leaves the ground. But YouTuber and serial tinkerer Peter Sripol built one that you could sit in, roll down a runway, and attempt to fly.
Tags: Aeroplanes, Concept Aircraft, Cardboard, DIY, Oddball
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – roughly twice the width of a human hair – these machines can perceive their surroundings, "think," and act independently without external instructions. According to their developers, such technology could one day monitor the health of individual cells in our bodies or deliver medication to specific locations to treat diseases.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Microbots, Autonomous, Sensors
The Trump administration has announced that it wants to build a new class of battleships. But this is just one element of the Golden Fleet –a larger program of naval reform aimed at a major transformation of the US Navy and its strategy.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: US Navy, Ships, Marine Innovations
The next transformative phase of weight-loss medication is upon us, with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approving Novo Nordisk's highly anticipated oral GLP-1 drug – with a starting dose available in early January for US$149.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, Ozempic, clinical trials, FDA, Obesity, Weight Loss
The Mouflon Tent from Belgian-American company CanvasCamp pulls together a rugged canvas build, instant-pitching integrated hub frame, and massive windows on all four sides like no other tent we've seen. Whether you're leisurely camping at a local park or overlanding through harsh, storm-battered backlands, this three-person A-frame is ready to provide the exact level of protection you need, in as little as a minute after arrival.
Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Tent, Camping, Glamping, Outdoors and Camping
While it might sound like a weapon of oceanic destruction in the hands of Aquaman’s arch enemies, the new “stingraybot” from a team at ETH Zurich (the Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland) offers enormous promise for surgery, medical care, wildlife biology, robotics, and more, thanks to muscular membranes of microbubbles.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: ETH Zurich, locomotion, Soft Robotics, Ultrasound, Biomimicry
