Patio season is coming up in much of the world, but living in a smaller apartment shouldn’t stop you from enjoying a good steak at home. At the same time, most indoor cooking devices make you choose between convenience and real grilled flavor. Cozytime Lumo attempts to offer both by combining infrared cooking with AI automation that always picks the ideal settings for different foods.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kitchen, Cooking, Food, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Infrared, Grilling

The appearance of blocky black solar panels hasn't changed much at all in the last several years, and in the case of many buildings and roofs, they can really cramp your style.

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Category: Engineering

Tags: Materials, Solar Cell, Fraunhofer

Shipping containers can be turned into everything from tiny houses to art galleries, but they all share one issue: poor thermal performance. The Petti Restaurant mitigates this by covering the containers in mud, creating a striking building that stays a little cooler in India's intense heat.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Building and Construction, shipping containers, India, Restaurant

Our closest extinct relatives may have developed a very different growth trajectory from us. While modern humans follow a steady growth pattern, Neanderthals may have reached their physical and brain maturity much earlier in their lives, reports a newly published study.

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Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Neanderthal, Human

A new injection developed by researchers and an Australian biotechnology company may have a life-changing impact on an estimated nine out of 10 dogs that suffer from serious respiratory issues directly tied to their breed. It has the potential to allow these flat-faced breeds to live happier and longer lives, in a far less invasive way than existing methods.

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Category: Pets, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: RMIT University, Biotechnology, Dogs, Respiratory health, Lifespan, Health

The beginner motorcycle segment is a very interesting space – you’ve got new buyers who hardly come with any brand prejudice. They’re open to trying bikes from a number of manufacturers; they’re of course coming with a budget constraint, and most of all, they’re looking at something easy and unassuming to get them started on their motorcycling journey.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: qjmotor, Supermoto, Enduro, Dirt Bikes, Off-road

DJI's latest product for camping and van life enthusiasts makes it a lot easier than before to power your electronics on the road.

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Category: Outdoors

Tags: Battery, Power, DJI Innovations, Camping, Backup

For anyone who’s into SUVs, they know just how capable a car the Nissan Xterra was in its prime. A proper body-on-frame chassis, four-wheel drive, and a solid overall build quality to take on anything you’d throw at it … a proper SUV indeed.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Nissan, SUV, Ford, Toyota, Hybrid

New Zealand camping badge Zempire has launched one of the slimmest, most portable camp stoves on the US market. The new Stealth-Jet stove series packs down flat and slim for easy transport, even in the most tightly packed micro-campers, firing out up to 10,000 BTUs of cooking power per burner to ensure that weary, hungry road-trippers can sit down to a hot meal in minutes. The Stealth-Jet isn't quite the all-out sveltest car camping stove on the market, but it out-slims the vast majority.

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Category: Outdoor Cooking, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Camping, Stoves, Cooking

In my irascible opinion, there are never enough pockets in pants or backpacks for all the gadgets I need to tote around. With the arc-lighter-equipped Luxo multi-function flashlight however, that’s one less pocket taken up.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Flashlights, firestarter, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster

Scientists at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in South Korea, have built a silicone neckband that reads the tiny movements of your neck as you mouth words – and turns them into speech in your own voice, transmitted to whoever is listening.

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Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Postech, Collar, Speech, Artificial Intelligence, Voice

A recently published marine biology study shines a light on yet another damaging effect of the global illegal drug trade.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Marine Biology, Drugs, Cocaine, Sweden

While collecting fish samples in the field in Africa recently, behavioral ecologist Shun Satoh made an intriguing discovery. When he gazed towards a group of emperor chichlids, the fish seemed to be more alert and aggressive. This personal intuition became the starting point for a study to determine whether the fish could detect when a diver was directing visual attention toward their offspring.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Marine Biology, Behavior, Fish

Downsizing is always a challenge, but the Knoll tiny house makes the jump more manageable than most. Featuring a spacious layout with plenty of storage, the towable home would be a good fit for a couple or even a small family.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, House, Home, Micro-House

Along the rocky Atlantic shoreline of Nova Scotia, Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a home that looks like it’s floating above the landscape. The East River Residence, which is suspended on thin columns, stretches across the valley like a bridge between two embankments, letting the terrain flow underneath it like water.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Home, House, Building and Construction, Canada

The all-new Mohab Altus is a vehicle rooftop shelter series like nothing we've covered before. Using an electric-lift system, it rises into a boxy cabin that lives atop your vehicle. With four hard walls of solid weather protection and available heating and air conditioning, the Altus blurs the line between tent and RV, turning any pickup truck or 4x4 into a comfy camping rig with rock-solid all-season protection.

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Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: RV, Pickup, Truck, SUV, roof-top tent, Tent, Cabins, Off-road, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Overland Expo

"Ancient Japanese Art Brings Spineless Robot To Life!" Sounds very much like a movie plot summary. In reality, it perfectly describes the work of Princeton University engineers who have created a robot that moves without a single motor or gear, using heat and the principles of origami instead. Their soft robotic system relies on a combination of heat-sensitive advanced materials, flexible embedded electronics, and carefully designed folding structures to produce motion, ditching traditional mechanical components.

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Soft Robotics, Princeton University, Origami

The community of bacteria living in the intestines could be one of the drivers of memory loss in old age, at least in mice. As rodents age, shifts in their gut microbes weaken the signaling pathway connecting the gut to the brain, a study published in the journal Nature finds.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Gut Bacteria, Gut health, Gut-brain axis, Stanford University, Memory, Cognitive functioning

People often muse over catching lightning in a bottle, and what an amazing feat it would be. But have you ever wondered what comes next if we do it? Well, researchers at Northwestern University have bottled lightning and are using it for something just as remarkable: clean fuel. Their technology uses plasma in glass tubes to produce methanol from methane gas, a process that typically requires enormous amounts of energy.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Northwestern University, Lightning, Plasma, Methanol, Methane

I remember the various iterations of the family TV pretty much always being the focal point of our living room, but it never dominated the space like big flat panels can today. Some of the time the huge flat panel is hypnotizing watchers with the latest blockbuster movie, current viral sensation or – if you're lucky – an in-depth documentary or two. But much of its life it's just an unattractive dark presence looming large.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Projectors, Laser TV, Google TV, 4K UHD, Reviews