The world's new tallest hybrid timber skyscraper has officially topped out. Named Atlassian Central, the "plyscraper" soars to an incredible height of 180 m (591 ft), not just surpassing but smashing all previous records.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Building and Construction, Timber, Skyscrapers, World's Tallest, Australia
The appeal of an ultra-short-throw projector is pretty simple: you can get a huge image from a cabinet or sideboard nestled right up against a wall – without being troubled by ceiling mounts, long cable runs, or hardware sitting somewhere behind the couch.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Hisense, Projectors, Laser TV, Streaming, All-in-one
Peak Design already makes a range of well-loved camera accessories, and it's now expanding its lineup with the Field Bracket. It's designed for folks who use their gear in many different scenarios, and could use a mounting system that'll keep up.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Cameras, Peak Design, Kickstarter
With its modest length of just 6 m (20 ft), the Mini tiny house could be a good fit for would-be nomads. The home combines its compact dimensions with a well-designed layout that has everything needed for up to two people to downsize comfortably.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
If you simply love trying to work in an office tower or live in a skyrise while constantly fighting the urge to barf or have your brain explode from stress, then you probably hate dampers.
Category: Engineering
Tags: University of Mississippi, Building and Construction, Suspension, Earthquake
Large sinkholes in nature have traditionally been viewed as a win for biodiversity, protecting plants that would be exposed to environmental stress above ground. However, a new genetic study indicates they are an evolutionary death trap.
Category: Environment, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Biodiversity, Tree, Light, Photosynthesis, Carbon capture, adaptive
We're so used to seeing folding knives (and folding blade-loaded multitools) during our daily travels around world and web, we're not quite ready for an entirely different tool inside a folding package, especially not one with very knife-like G10 scales and thumbhole. But the all-new Norse Foldable from Willumsen conceals a different fold-out blade inside its handle. It does look just a bit too chunky when closed to be a knife, and that hints at the real capability that flips open in milliseconds at the flick of a wrist.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Axes, Kickstarter, Foldable, Camping, Backpacking, Bikepacking, Outdoors and Camping, Tools
The Farnborough International Airshow in the UK is one of the world's premier aerospace events, where major industry announcements and billion-dollar deals are as common as muffins. New Atlas is on the ground at this year's record-breaking event.
Tags: Aircraft, Show, Farnborough Airshow
Adam Stanaland, University of Richmond/The Conversation
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Testosterone, Hormones, Behavior, Physical functioning, Army, Warfare, Battlefield
As F-35 fighters roared overhead in display, Lockheed Martin unveiled its MORFIUS counter-drone at this year's Farnborough International Airshow. It uses a directed energy weapon to take out over 50 hostile drones per flight.
Category: Military, Engineering
In cloned populations of a newly described single-celled protist, a few cells undergo a voracious transformation. They metamorphose into much larger “supergiants” that shift their shape, alter their movement, and begin hunting and eating their own genetically identical relatives.
Category: Biology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Micro-organisms, Hunting, Cells, protist, Transformable
I love a multitool as much as the next person, but some of them really aim to do too much for my liking – especially when I'm within city limits.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Knife, EDC, Tools, Kickstarter
While daylight saving may give us a little extra sunshine at the end of our workdays, the transition may be costing us our health.
Category: Sleep, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Sleep, Eye diseases, Retina, daylight-saving-time, Macular Degeneration
Lockheed Martin used this year's Farnborough International Airshow to introduce a low-cost alternative to its Patriot surface-to-air interceptor missile called the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Adapted Capability Effector (PAC-3 ACE).
Category: Military, Engineering
While cost-of-living pressures continue to impact consumer behavior, one business appears to be booming: the vasectomy industry.
Category: Biology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Male Contraceptives, Contraception, Society, Reproduction, Birth Control, Aging population, Surgery
For at least three years now, Silicon Valley and its global tech-futurist counterparts have been crafting a new vision for the future of RVing: long, sleek, luxurious glamping trailers that deliver their own motive power, sensor-based assistance and smart home conveniences. That vision invariably includes one other characteristic: a six-figure price tag. But the new T4 trailer from Southern California startup Aboard Mobility looks to squeeze all the high-tech convenience and glamping comfort into a much smaller base price. Whether Aboard is successful at doing so remains to be seen.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Caravan, electric-camper, smart RV, trailers, Trailer, RV, Self-Driving, Outdoors and Camping, Glamping, Camping, PHEV
Yustina Yustina, King's College London/The Conversation
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Skin, Microbiome, Probiotic, Inflammation, The Immune System, T-cells, Aging, Age-Related, anti-aging
TerraMow's new X AWD rethinks how a robot mower moves, swapping the usual end-of-row pivot for a back-and-forth "Shuttle Drive" designed to handle big, steep, and messy lawns without chewing up the turf.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Mower, Lawnmowers, Robotics, Automation
Though it has a compact footprint, this tiny house expands its living area significantly with a useful rooftop terrace. Inside, it features a space-saving layout that's packed with storage and can sleep up to five people at a squeeze.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Home, Tiny Footprint, House, Building and Construction
Light has been making anti-distraction phones for about a decade now, starting with a custom operating system and layering minimalist design on top.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Smartphones, Light Phone, Minimalist
