Leica has been in the premium imaging business for more than a hundred years. After testing the waters with a few industry partnerships, the iconic brand launched its first smart projector in 2022. Now the range is expanding with the addition of the Cine Compact 1.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Leica, 4K UHD, Laser, Projectors
A deep-sea mystery that has stumped researchers for the past two-and-a-half years has a solution, with marine scientists from NOAA Fisheries and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the US finally determining the identity of a bizarre “golden orb” recovered from the Pacific in 2023.
Tags: Marine Biology, NOAA, Ocean, jellyfish, Coral
Downsizing to a tiny house always involves compromises, but the Coolangatta 8.4 aims to minimize them with a storage-packed and flexible interior that's well suited to full-time living, on or off-grid.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Fancy driving an off-roader guided by its own remote drone flying ahead to recce the terrain and relay images back to your dashboard screen?
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: GM, GMC, Hummer, Electric Vehicles, Concept Vehicle, Truck, SUV
Kovi Rose, University of Sydney/ The Conversation
Tags: pulsar, Stars, Radio Waves, Signal Processing
Small camping trailers are great for a lot of reasons. They're easier to tow and maneuver than large trailers. They're compatible with a large variety of vehicles, likely including the everyday driver parked in your garage. Less trailer usually means less price tag, and less money spent on gas. The list goes on, but for all those advantages, small trailers usually fall short on one highly critical spec: a bathroom. The latest ROG trailer from Encore RV solves the lack of bathroom issue in a rather bold way, and it's a much better small camper for it.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Caravan, trailers, Trailer, RV, Off-road, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-grid
Researchers have developed a urine-based screening tool that may help identify individuals who are most likely to be diagnosed with autism later in life, opening the door to assessment and support networks.
Category: ADHD & Autism, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Arizona State University, Diagnostic devices, Autism spectrum disorder, Developmental conditions, Brain, Neuroscience
As it is, a recumbent trike is something that may already get you noticed. Add tilting wheels, and it'll draw even more attention. But with its telescoping carbon-fiber-tube body, the Allroadracer TriX is sure to turn heads wherever it goes.
Tags: Trike, Tricycle, Recumbent, Carbon Fiber, ebikes, Tilting-Vehicle
You know the story. Clouds of dust and gas collapse to form stars like our Sun, around which the swirling maelstrom of debris slowly coalesces into a system of planets.
Tags: Supermassive black hole, Planet, Exoplanet, Stars
Imagine putting on a VR headset and suddenly finding yourself standing between rows of tomato plants. You can walk the aisles, crouch beside a struggling seedling, and check its soil moisture and temperature in real time. That’s the idea behind a system developed by engineers at Binghamton University, State University of New York: a digital twin, or live 3D replica synchronized with real-world sensors, that links your physical greenhouse to a virtual one you can access anywhere.
Category: Virtual Reality, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: VR, Agriculture, Binghamton University, Plants, Artificial Intelligence, Digital twin
Just over seven months from completing phase one of this mega-project, Chinese engineers have finished the build and switched on the world's first underwater data center (UDC) powered by offshore wind turbines. What's more, it doesn't need freshwater and cuts land use by more than 90% compared with above-ground centers.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: China, Artificial Intelligence, Data Center, Data Storage, Marine Innovations, Wind turbine, Wind-powered, Underwater, Green+Technology
Carrie McDonough, Carnegie Mellon University / The Conversation
Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
With its length of just 8 m (26 ft), the Maple strikes a good balance between portability and comfort. The tiny house features a well-designed interior that would be a good fit as either a vacation home or a full-time residence.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, House, Micro-House, Home
Neanderthals used tar extracted from birch tree bark as a glue to haft their tools, according to previous research. It now appears this dark, sticky substance may have had multiple applications.
Category: Archaeology, Science
Tags: Neanderthal, Traditional medicine, Materials
A compact elevated shelter by Baquio Arquitectura has been installed on the slopes above Mindo, in Ecuador’s Chocó cloud forest. Dubbed Casa 6-3, the project is a tiny timber retreat with a lightweight footprint, overlooking the surrounding mountains and rainforest.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Cabins, Tiny Footprint, Building and Construction, Shelter, Home
The rules of biology have been torn up by a small fish in the Pacific that steals light-producing molecules from its food in the only known example of kleptoproteinism.
Tags: Tohoku University, Fish, Ocean, Bioluminescence, Animal science, Marine Biology, Genome, DNA, Evolution
Finding the modern backpacking stove market unfit for its hard-charging, bushwhacking, peak-scrambling hunts, Colorado's Roughridge Stove Co. determined to make a tougher, more inextinguishable breed of all-in-one backcountry cook system. It reached for the lightest, toughest materials available and reconfigured a few critical specs to create a system that travels lightly, holds up to use after abuse, and works in all weather. It's the Highcountry stove, and it's built to work when and where you need it, every time.
Category: Outdoor Cooking, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Hunting, Camping, Backpacking, Stoves, Cooking, Outdoors and Camping, Lightweight
The latest compact smartphone camera from Thermal Master may look a fair bit like its earlier pocket-sized model we covered, but looks are deceiving – and the new P4 makes some pretty big advances that you'll see as soon as you plug it in.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Thermal Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Digital imaging, Photography, Portable Video, Portable, Reviews
When I first saw the Woojer vest about seven or eight years ago on Kickstarter, I remember thinking that it sounded fun, but maybe a little gimmicky. Either way, I wanted to try it. So when Woojer recently reached out and asked if I wanted to review it, I said, "Heck yeah, send it over!" Now that I have it and have spent many hours using it in various scenarios, I think I've concluded whether it's worth the ~US$350 price of admission for a vest fitted with bass-thumping transducers.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Haptic, wearable electronics, Games, VR, Reviews
