Battery-driven induction is starting to look like the next wave in cooking, with its superior performance potential and its compatibility with standard home wiring. It’s also got all the general advantages of induction over traditional electric and gas stoves, such as more precision, better efficiency, lower fire-risk, and the avoiding of unhealthy gas seepage.

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Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle

Tags: Cooking, Kitchen, Appliances, Stoves, Induction, Battery

Subaru has unveiled an all-new model, the Trailseeker. This all-electric sport utility starts at a little under $50,000 and will enter the market in early 2026.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Subaru, SUV, Electric Vehicles

Although underwater scooters may offer users an aquatic "thrill ride," many of the things don't go much faster than the person could swim on their own. Such is not the case with the Sublue Vapor, however, which tops out at a speed of 10 km/h (6 mph).

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Underwater scooters, Scuba, Snorkels, Swimming

Beyond the myriad complications that come with diabetes, patients have to additionally put up with regular blood sugar testing – which involves either multiple pin pricks a day to draw blood or wearing a continuous glucose monitor patch that needs to be replaced every couple of weeks. If you're not good with needles, this can be awful.

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Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Sugar, blood-glucose, Diabetes, Diabetic, Continuous Glucose Monitor, MIT

Antigravity just dropped the A1 – the world's first "all-in-one 8K 360 drone." Totally sounds like marketing hype until you fly it and realize how revolutionary this drone really is. As Antigravity's Michael Shabun put it, "A1 takes the freedom of 360 capture and gives it wings."

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Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Insta360, DJI Innovations, Anti-Gravity, VR, AR, Drone photography, Reviews

The Yamabiko is small, even by tiny house standards. Yet despite its modest length of 6.6 m (21.6 ft), this clever model somehow manages to squeeze in not just one but two separate layouts, each mirroring the other and sharing a single bathroom.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Vitamin C may offer meaningful protection against one of the world's invisible but pervasive health threats – fine-particle air pollution. New research has found that the common antioxidant can significantly reduce the lung inflammation and cellular damage caused by everyday, low-level exposure to PM2.5.

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Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Technology Sydney, Vitamins and minerals, Dietary supplements, Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), Air quality, Lung disease, Asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Air pollution

Inspired by the humble old greenhouse, a futuristic self-contained food ecosystem was recently on display at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai in Japan, offering us a glimpse at a how we might one day have "farm to table" on our apartment block rooftops or in small urban spaces. Think of it as a tiny house of produce.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Japan, Expo, Greenhouse, Agriculture, sustainable design, Urban Gardening, Vertical Garden, Aquaculture, Green+Technology

Twenty million, six hundred and thirty thousand US dollars. That’s how much the Gordon Murray S1 LM supercar sold for, officially garnering the highest sale price for a new car sold at auction, excluding charity lots.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Gordon Murray, Gordon Murray Motors, Hypercar, Supercars, Auction, World's Most Expensive

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These fragile molecules could reveal which genes were active in the animal’s final hours and what was happening inside the animal’s muscles when it died.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: DNA, RNA, Wooly mammoth, Fossils

After years of exoskeletons built primarily for medical, workforce and military applications, the recreational sport exoskeleton is really having its marketable moment. The newest take on the technology, the Irmo M1 brings what's billed as a "world first" tweak, a multi-sensor AI system that automatically adjusts output based on the terrain ahead. It's like an adaptive automotive suspension, only for legs instead of wheels.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Exoskeleton, Sports, Hiking, Cycling, Outdoors and Camping, Backpacking, Kickstarter, Fitness

The extent of an incredible dinosaur highway has been revealed in Bolivia, a country where actual skeletal fossils are rare. More than 16,000 footprints, along with tail impressions from creatures of all sizes, have been fully documented – and the scale of theropod activity alone is unlike anything that's been seen before.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Geology, Dinosaurs, Print, Birds, Fossils, National Parks, Paleontology

The business of paying respect to the dead can be an eco-unfriendly matter, whether opting for a wooden coffin that contributes to deforestation, or a cremation service that produces carbon emissions. Instead, Dutch firm Loop Biotech has found a way to save forests and reduce CO2 emissions with the Loop Living Cocoon, the world’s first mushroom-based casket.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: Mushrooms, Biodegradable

Okay, so you know how it absolutely sucks when you're exploring the polar icecaps and your flashlight craps out at sub-zero temperatures because it's simply too cold? Your batteries might be to blame – and the solution might be an alternative to conventional lithium-ion cells.

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Category: Outdoors

Tags: EDC, Flashlights, Kickstarter

If you’ve ever wished your cat could tell you when something’s wrong – especially with kidneys, digestion or the bladder – the SiiPet LitterLens might be the closest thing we’ve got to that. And peace of mind comes at only US$59 in December.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Pets, Pet-owners, Cats, Smart Home, Monitor, Health, Cameras, Smart Camera, Reviews

Four years after the A7 IV came out, Sony's given its mid-range flagship a glowup – making it a more versatile option that'll better serve your photo and video shooting needs around the US$3,000 mark.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Cameras, Sony, Mirrorless Cameras

Hypersonic vehicles aren't much use if you don't know where they're going, so Northrop Grumman is developing new navigation systems for autonomous craft that can stand up to the rigors of flying at speeds of over Mach 5.

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Category: Military, Technology

Tags: Aircraft, Hypersonic, Navigation, Northrop Grumman

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard blueprint of growth and adaptation. For the first time, scientists have unlocked when, and how, ancient bears broke the rules and hacked nature out of need.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Fossils, Teeth, Evolution, Climate Crisis, History, Animal science

Commercial spaceflight is booming and looks to go into full-on kaboom stage in the near future, sparking the need for an ever-increasing supply of solar panels. To fill this need, Dcubed is developing its ARAQYS system to directly manufacture arrays in orbit.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: 3D Printing, Solar Power

While one staple North American fiberglass 'egg' camper builder was preparing its first-ever off-road-specific trailer, another was putting the finishing touches on its smallest, lightest trailer to date. The all-new E13 shrinks down Escape Trailer's rock-solid insulated fiberglass construction to two-sleeper+ size, creating a tiny habitat that tows and stows with ease. And Escape offers a full baker's dozen of color options that range from explosively retro to three shades of gray.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: trailers, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, RV, Caravan