The Playcube was already an unusual little projector: a palm-sized, Rubik’s Cube-like device with a 360-degree rotating design, built to throw a big image onto a wall, ceiling, or whatever flat surface you have nearby. Now, TCL is adding a new layer of interaction through Google’s Gemini AI.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
From Smokpub, makers of a compact electric cocktail and whisky smoker, comes the Doubot, a sourdough fermentation system currently on Kickstarter. They claim it's “a smarter way to proof dough” for the novice baker second-guessing their technique.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kitchen, Food technology, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster
A newly developed antibody has halted the growth and spread of aggressive prostate cancer in preclinical tests, raising hopes for a more targeted way of treating metastatic disease without the side effects that have hampered earlier attempts to block the same cancer-driving pathway.
Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: antibodies, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy
It looks like laser weapons are going to get a major power-up. The US government has awarded contracts worth US$86 million to develop new Joint Laser Weapon Systems (JLWS) capable of outputting up to 500 kW to take out next-generation cruise missiles.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: Laser weapon, Lockheed Martin
One of the fiercest, sharpest go-anywhere teardrop trailers roaming the Outback, the Stockman Rover series has been a highly enviable hunk of RV hardware since well before it got a 2.0 update. And it remains one after what we'll call a V2.2 facelift. The newly updated 2026 camper maintains its world-leading combination of intimidating exterior construction and cushy interior comfort, taking on a new power system, new multi-awning setup, stealthy black-out look, and available entry-level trim that drops its base price by AU$10K compared to 2025.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: teardrop trailers, Caravan, trailers, Trailer, RV, Off-road, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
In a rare study looking at the relationship between cultural engagement and biological aging, scientists have found a potential link between spending time at the theater, visiting museums, and watching movies on the big screen and living healthier for longer.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Age-Related, anti-aging, Biological age, Chronic illness, Aging, Healthy aging, Theater, Culture, Museum, Gallery
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its first comprehensive guidance on how psychedelic drugs should best be studied in clinical trials, signalling a shift toward recognizing the potential of these therapeutics. The report also outlines what's needed to see promising compounds approved.
Category: Psychedelics, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: FDA, Psychedelic Medicine, psychiatry, Culture, clinical trials, Drug development, Experimental
Ferrari told us last September that the 849 Testarossa Spider – the convertible version of its well-lauded plug-in hybrid hypercar – was coming. It shares a powertrain and about 90% of the bodywork with its coupe sibling. What we didn't expect is just how much more mojo this variant would bring to the table.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Ferrari, Hypercar, Plug-in Hybrid
Oliver Hamer, Edge Hill University/The Conversation
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, Obesity, Diet, Body fat
The Mediterranean is getting hotter and drier, pushing scientists to look for water even in the air itself. A German team has now scaled up a porous material that does exactly that, even when the air feels bone-dry.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: Kiel University, metal-organic frameworks, Water, Chemistry, Environment, Atmosphere
Most of us don’t have grandma for dinner. Not even when there’s nothing else in the pantry.
Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: University of Wrocław, Red meat, Society, Diet
For nearly a decade, physicists have watched a steady drizzle of energetic neutrinos rain down on Earth. The IceCube Observatory, buried deep in Antarctic ice, has been catching them since 2013.
Category: Astronomy, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Neutrino, Quasar, Black hole, little-red-dots, James Webb Space Telescope
In a US first, the US Air Force has successfully fired a missile from a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Loyal Wingman. Conducted in collaboration with Anduril Industries, the YFQ-44A drone launched an AIM-120 missile at a digital target.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: US Air Force, Anduril, drones
More and more everyday carry (EDC) tools are incorporating features for emergency and outdoor use: from a compact titanium compass to a "card deck" tool with a signaling mirror. Eck Design has previously launched several outdoor products on Kickstarter, including the TiStove that we’ve also covered. This time, the company is introducing TriReso, a modular rescue whistle system.
Tags: Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Rescue, Emergencies
On the road to constructing flawless simulations of human faces, there’s a zone where things get … weird. Too realistic to be a caricature or cartoon, too fake to be the real deal, these middle-ground representations trigger responses of discomfort in many who encounter them.
Category: Biology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Psychology, Communications, Future Robot, CGI, Uncanny valley
Several years ago, British tent maker Cinch Outdoors teamed up with Chinese innovator Wild Land to Kickstart the inflatable Air Cruiser rooftop tent. It was a firm move off the ground and onto the vehicle for Cinch, which has since focused on bringing other Wild Land innovations to the US market. The Wingman launches as what's sure to be the USA's largest, wildest pickup camping topper ever, bringing two stories of living space, a power multi-X-lift system and a rooftop lookout ... for a lower starting price than most smaller, more basic toppers.
Category: Pickup Campers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Truck, RV, Camping, Pickup, Outdoors and Camping
Alpine offered a first look at its new high-performance electric sports car at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend – all thanks to a pioneering new process for developing a new car platform.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Renault, Alpine, Performance, Prototype, Goodwood, Electric Vehicles
Alpine offered a first look at its new high-performance electric sports car at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend – all thanks to a pioneering new process for developing a new car platform.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Renault, Alpine, Performance, Prototype, Goodwood, Electric Vehicles
Sathana Dushyanthen, The University of Melbourne/The Conversation
Category: Biology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
Compact lifestyle projectors tend to fall into one of two camps: small enough to move around easily, or bright and capable enough to stand in for a TV on movie nights. XGIMI’s expanded Elfin Flip Series is trying to sit somewhere between the two.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: XGIMI, Laser, 4K UHD, Projectors, HD, Google TV, Portable, Compact
