Toyota's first real swing at a mainstream battery-electric vehicle, in the awkwardly named bZ4X, felt like it had been designed by committee. Did a name change improve things?
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: SUV, Toyota, Battery+Electric+Vehicle, Electric Vehicles, Reviews
A bug commonly cast as one of the gut’s good guys may have a darker side when dietary fiber is in short supply. Researchers have found that the gut microbiome could help identify people at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes years before the diagnosis.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Type 2 diabetes, Gut Bacteria, Microbiome, Fiber, Diet
Large and luxurious tiny houses are all well and good, but the Fairfax 20' draws on the small living movement's modest roots with a compact, no-frills model that's currently up for sale for just US$33,700.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, House, Home, Micro-House
London-based architecture studio, David Kohn Architects, has transformed the top of a 19th-century Covent Garden warehouse with an unexpected addition. Dubbed Smart's Place, it’s a two-story home that feels more like a freestanding house with its own patch of ground, even though it’s an extension of a flat roof.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: London, Home, House, Building and Construction
The Anthbot M9 is a surprisingly adept wire-free mower, which can master lawns of up to 1,000 sq m (around a quarter of an acre) for a fraction of the price of its famous competitors. And, importantly, it's incredibly easy to use, making it a great option for those new to home-robot life.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Mower, Smart technology, Smart Home, Artificial Intelligence, GPS, RTK positioning, Satellite Navigation, Reviews
Danielle Thielke and Giselle Woodley, Edith Cowan University, and Campbell Ince, Monash University/The Conversation
Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Addiction, Edith Cowan University, Monash University, Pornography, ADHD, Depression, Developmental conditions
Whether you’re constructing homes through your 3D-printing company, creating RPG tabletop terrains and cosplay weapons through your garage-based modeling operation, or providing disaster relief and building structures in distant locales or even on other planets, you don’t want to waste your medium. On Earth, that’d be financially and ecologically expensive, but in space, on the Moon, or on Mars, depleting your printing resource could be a disaster.
Category: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Engineering
In the event that we spiral into a dystopian hellscape ruled by evil corporations in the future, it seems pretty reasonable to turn to a life of crime, swiping data and selling cyborg spare parts on the black market.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Custom Bikes, Custom, KTM, Goodwood
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a game-changing cholesterol drug, the first of its kind in a class that's otherwise administered by injection.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: clinical trials, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Statins, Cholesterol, Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol
People have been fantasizing about humanoid robots for decades. Movies such as Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence imagined a future where robots and AI could interact with humans and save them from loneliness. Today, those sci-fi stories seem to be closer to reality than ever before, as Chinese company Ubtech has recently launched a product it calls the world’s first full-size, mass-produced "ultrabionic" companion robot.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: Humanoid
In a world first, the Royal Air Force airdropped an autonomous drone boat from a military transport aircraft. Part of the Royal Navy's Project Beehive, a Kraken Technologies K3 SCOUT vehicle was parachuted from an Airbus A400M cargo plane over the North Sea.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Autonomous, drones
Properly locking your bicycle can be a hassle, as you often have to secure the frame and rear wheel via a U-lock, while using a cable lock (or similar) on the front wheel. The Cordalock is out to change that, as it's a single lock that secures the whole bike.
Tags: Kickstarter, Lock, Security, Theft
Two years ago, the list of signs and symptoms required to diagnose a patient with the neurodegenerative autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis underwent a massive overhaul.
Category: Imaging & Diagnostics, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Neurodegenerative conditions, Autoimmune, Nerves, Diagnostic devices
Take your backyard birding to a new level with the Harymor smart feeder, one in a new class home technology that lets you experience local wildlife up close from your phone, no matter where you are.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Birds, Outdoor Technology, nature, Wildlife, Animal science, Behavior, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Camera
The older and lazier I get, the easier I want my life. So when I discovered the Stream Deck+, a versatile little desktop controller with programmable buttons, built-in screens and rotary knobs, I knew I had to have one. If I'm not in the right browser tab, saying "Hey Yaffle, office aircon 24" works perfectly well, but it's just … More. Effort. Than ... Click.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Buttons, Controller, Touchscreen, Computer Human Interface
Jack Janetzki & Lauren Cortis, Adelaide University/The Conversation
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Influenza, Virus, Decongestant, Pharmaceuticals, Winter
These aint your grandpa’s medical electrodes.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Sensors, Electroencephalography (EEG)
N+ has a fun approach to making ebikes: it inks licensing deals with big-name brands to launch new models with something familiar to attract your attention in today's ever-expanding bicycle market.
Tags: Volkswagen, ebikes, Radar, Road Safety, urban transport, Cycling
The bomb drops. A nuclear blast erupts. Uranium is vaporized, where it mixes with the atmosphere and is dispersed across the land as toxic dust called fallout.
Category: Physics, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Nuclear weapons, Nuclear Fission, Uranium, Explosion, Bombs, Chemistry, Radioactivity
Humans have occupied the International Space Station (ISS), which sits at about 248 miles (400 km) above sea level, for 25 years. Meanwhile, the sea, sitting at … well, sea level, with a maximum known depth of 6.8 miles, has never had a station manned for up to a month. Researchers are looking to change that with a new subsea habitat.
Tags: Underwater, Ocean, Research
